From c061316aeebe28770b318c489e779a2d215264c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Haible Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:19:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update the installation instructions for Windows. * INSTALL.windows: Add a note about MSYS2. --- INSTALL.windows | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/INSTALL.windows b/INSTALL.windows index 72efd29..c1f7159 100644 --- a/INSTALL.windows +++ b/INSTALL.windows @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ There are three ways to create binaries of this package for Microsoft Windows: =============================================================================== 1) Native binaries, built using the mingw tool chain. - I recommend to use the Cygwin environment as the development environment + I recommend to use the Cygwin environment as the development environment (*) and mingw only as the target (runtime, deployment) environment. For this, you need to install * Cygwin (from https://cygwin.com/), @@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ There are three ways to create binaries of this package for Microsoft Windows: make install + (*) Note: The MSYS2 environment as a development environment is *not* + supported. This environment contains an ignoble and ignominious hack: + In a program invocation, the program *by default* receives different + arguments than the ones that the caller has passed. See + . + All program invocations in this environment are therefore unreliable. + =============================================================================== 2) Native binaries, built using the MS Visual C/C++ tool chain. -- 2.45.0