MinGW doc updates

git-svn-id: svn://svn.handbrake.fr/HandBrake/trunk@4892 b64f7644-9d1e-0410-96f1-a4d463321fa5

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/doc/texi/Building.mingw.texi b/doc/texi/Building.mingw.texi
index bc89930a2..572940ddb 100644
--- a/doc/texi/Building.mingw.texi
+++ b/doc/texi/Building.mingw.texi
@@ -19,18 +19,21 @@ The following are the recommended specifications for building on @value{OS.mingw
 
 @itemize @bullet
 @item Intel 32-bit or 64-bit hardware
-@item @value{OS.mingw}, gcc 4.5
+@item @value{OS.mingw} on Fedora 16, Ubuntu or Debian, gcc 4.5+
 @item yasm 1.1.x.x (for i386 or x86_64 architectures)
 @end itemize
 
 @include building/prerequisites.bundled.texi
 
 @quotation Note
+You must set the --cross flag with configure to cross compile with windows.
+See the Example below. Note that the cross compiler name varies between distributions.
+
 As of this writing, @value{OS.mingw} has available to it several versions of gcc; only one of which may be found and used in the path as @code{gcc} and @code{g++}. Configure will thus find what is probably the older version of gcc in a typical @value{OS.mingw} environment. If you desire to build with the newer gcc, it is found in the path as @command{gcc-4} and @command{g++-4} respectively and you must indicate to configure the desired versions. The following syntax should do the trick:
 @end quotation
 
 @example
-../configure --gcc=gcc-4
+../configure --cross=i686-pc-mingw32 --gcc=gcc-4
 @end example
 
 @include building/prerequisites.common.texi