X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fbinaries_note.txt;h=7c6b43552f42d4b86c03308e647b5b18d421112f;hb=be10fb23b81286308368e488c9693e196f17e823;hp=e4191f6541b3377d9fba6b7576c05dcbdce9e578;hpb=eb6dc8f19d6bc48bd41e85028d4d214955d07829;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/doc/binaries_note.txt b/doc/binaries_note.txt index e4191f65..7c6b4355 100644 --- a/doc/binaries_note.txt +++ b/doc/binaries_note.txt @@ -1,22 +1,12 @@ -There are a few pre-built binaries included with hoople. -They originate from a few different sources. Feel free to not trust them. - -These apps are external to the HOOPLE build... - -build/msys hierarchy: - This is copied directly from the msys project of MingW. - It has had zip.exe, unzip.exe and short_path.exe added to it. - - unzip.exe & zip.exe: - The zip and unzip tools are from the info-zip project. They are somewhat - antiquated but still work great on the various 32-bit windows platforms. - These utilities are self-identified as: "Zip 2.3 (November 29th 1999)" - To get a more recent version of the zip utilities or build them yourself, - they can be found at the site: http://www.info-zip.org/ - - short_path.exe: - Built by the hoople bootstrapping process, but unfortunately this tool - is desperately needed for windows builds to work nicely with clam and - bash. It can be replaced by any newer working version from the bootstrap. +There is one pre-built binary included with this code distribution +in the production/win32_helper folder. Feel free to not trust it. + +short_path.exe: + This tool is built by the feisty meow application bootstrapping process + (that is, by scripts/generator/bootstrap_build.sh), but unfortunately it is + needed *by* that process when your visual studio installation path has + spaces in it. To fix this chicken & egg problem, you can manually change + your VC root variable (e.g. VS100COMNTOOLS) to the short path version (as + reported using "dir /x").