From e6f37ca472860535606ef0f898f85f3ad6a7167c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chun-wei Fan Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:42:17 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update Windows READMEs -Tell people about that libFFI is now needed. -Tell people not to compile GLib in paths containing spaces. --- README.win32 | 16 +++++++++++----- build/win32/vs10/README.txt | 4 +++- build/win32/vs9/README.txt | 4 +++- 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index a04417f..8f1fe25 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -159,11 +159,17 @@ and libtool documentation. Building with Visual Studio =========================== -In an unpacked tarball, you will find in build\win32\vs9 a solution -file that can be used to build the GLib DLLs and some auxiliary -programs. Read the README.txt file in that folder for more -information. Note that you will need a libintl implementation, and -zlib. +Please do not build GLib in paths that contain spaces in them, as +this may cause problems during compilation and during usage of the +library. + +In an unpacked tarball, you will find in build\win32\vs9 (VS 2008) and +build\win32\vs10 (VS 2010) a solution file that can be used to build +the GLib DLLs and some auxiliary programs under VS 2008 and VS 2010 +(Express Edition will suffice with the needed dependencies) respectively. +Read the README.txt file in those folders for more +information. Note that you will need a libintl implementation, zlib, and +libFFI. If you are building from a GIT checkout, you will first need to use some Unix-like environment or run build/win32/setup.py, diff --git a/build/win32/vs10/README.txt b/build/win32/vs10/README.txt index b5ad800..5822a33 100644 --- a/build/win32/vs10/README.txt +++ b/build/win32/vs10/README.txt @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -Note that all this is rather experimental. +Please do not compile this package (GLib) in paths that contain +spaces in them-as strange problems may occur during compilation or during +the use of the library. This VS10 solution and the projects it includes are intented to be used in a GLib source tree unpacked from a tarball. In a git checkout you diff --git a/build/win32/vs9/README.txt b/build/win32/vs9/README.txt index 2bb6fc8..4ae89b4 100644 --- a/build/win32/vs9/README.txt +++ b/build/win32/vs9/README.txt @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -Note that all this is rather experimental. +Please do not compile this package (GLib) in paths that contain +spaces in them-as strange problems may occur during compilation or during +the use of the library. This VS9 solution and the projects it includes are intented to be used in a GLib source tree unpacked from a tarball. In a git checkout you -- 2.7.4