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| author | lloyd <[email protected]> | 2008-10-11 21:05:33 +0000 |
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| committer | lloyd <[email protected]> | 2008-10-11 21:05:33 +0000 |
| commit | 5be0c37f7b938b16b3cae5cc8650119326edceaf (patch) | |
| tree | 1428a25cdbe648a8c16ea16f833e3d2807e171f3 /doc | |
| parent | 44490cc2ca9d481f11f349bd5505cfff5f3e2d25 (diff) | |
Minor additions to the Windows build instructions
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/building.tex | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/building.tex b/doc/building.tex index bff6cc6fa..fe4f15e86 100644 --- a/doc/building.tex +++ b/doc/building.tex @@ -166,12 +166,12 @@ The situation is not much different here. We'll assume you're using Visual C++ have a copy of Perl installed, and have both Perl and Visual C++ in your path. \begin{verbatim} - > perl configure.pl --cc=msvc --os=windows [--cpu=CPU] + > perl configure.pl --cc=msvc (or --cc=gcc for MinGW) [--cpu=CPU] > nmake > nmake check # optional, but recommended \end{verbatim} -For Win95 pre OSR2, the \verb|cryptoapi\_rng| module will not work, +For Win95 pre OSR2, the \verb|cryptoapi_rng| module will not work, because CryptoAPI didn't exist. And all versions of NT4 lack the ToolHelp32 interface, which is how \verb|win32_stats| does its slow polls, so a version of the library built with that module will not @@ -185,9 +185,11 @@ Windows. Basically all you have to do is copy the newly created directory, which was constructed when you built the library, into the same directory. -When building your applications, all you have to do is tell the compiler to -look for both include files and library files in \verb|C:\botan|, and it will -find both. +When building your applications, all you have to do is tell the +compiler to look for both include files and library files in +\verb|C:\botan|, and it will find both. Or you can move them to a +place where they will be in the default compiler search paths (consult +your documentation and/or local expert for details). \pagebreak |