Author: coke
Date: Mon Mar 31 08:51:39 2008
New Revision: 26663

Modified:
   trunk/README_cygwin.pod

Log:
[docs]

Cygwin does, in fact, build, if you follow these steps.



Modified: trunk/README_cygwin.pod
==============================================================================
--- trunk/README_cygwin.pod     (original)
+++ trunk/README_cygwin.pod     Mon Mar 31 08:51:39 2008
@@ -9,7 +9,24 @@
 parrot builds out of the box under cygwin. 
 Some tweaks are needed for different names of dynamic loading of some dll's.
 
-=head1 ICU 
+=head1 Packages
+
+You'll need the following cygwin packages to build parrot.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item gcc
+
+=item make
+
+=item perl
+
+=item subversion
+
+If you use svn to get a copy of parrot, you should use the cygwin svn
+and not the tortoiseSVN client to avoid build errors.
+
+=item ICU 
 
 This is no official cygwin package yet.
 However, icu4c-3_8 builds out of the box on cygwin.
@@ -18,11 +35,14 @@
 Note that ICU is now optional, you can build Parrot without it, 
 by not installing it or asking Parrot to ignore it (C<--without-icu>). 
 
-=head1 INSTALL
+=back
+
+=head1 BUILD
 
-  perl Configure.pl 
+  export PATH=`pwd`:$PATH
+  perl Configure.pl
   make
-  make test
+  make test # see PLATFORMS for known issues.
   make reallyinstall
 
 =head1 TODO
@@ -75,4 +95,4 @@
 
 Last updated: 2 March 2008
 
-=cut
\ No newline at end of file
+=cut

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