diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index cb1824d..bb1c182 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2023-06-29 Bruno Haible + + Update the installation instructions for Windows. + * INSTALL.windows: Add a note about MSYS2. + 2023-06-22 Bruno Haible Ensure that makeinfo ≥ 6.8 checks the @menu structure. diff --git a/INSTALL.windows b/INSTALL.windows index 4d47426..45b1646 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.