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
