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Update the installation instructions for Windows.

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* INSTALL.windows: Add a note about MSYS2.
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Bruno Haible
2023-06-29 15:12:05 +02:00
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ There are three ways to create binaries of this package for Microsoft Windows:
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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
<https://www.msys2.org/wiki/Porting/#filesystem-namespaces>.
All program invocations in this environment are therefore unreliable.
===============================================================================
2) Native binaries, built using the MS Visual C/C++ tool chain.