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authorLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2010-07-27 20:47:12 +0300
committerLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2010-07-27 20:47:12 +0300
commitce1f0deafe8504e1492bf1b1efb3e3ec950b1a2b (patch)
tree8814622ba2c7c50ad14550a691099c23de7aa606
parentWindows: build.sh is a bash script so name it correctly. (diff)
downloadxz-ce1f0deafe8504e1492bf1b1efb3e3ec950b1a2b.tar.xz
Windows: Add a note about building a Git repository snapshot
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diff --git a/windows/INSTALL-Windows.txt b/windows/INSTALL-Windows.txt
index b3ed93e3..5515708f 100644
--- a/windows/INSTALL-Windows.txt
+++ b/windows/INSTALL-Windows.txt
@@ -129,3 +129,12 @@ Building XZ Utils
Be patient. Running configure and other scripts used by the build
system is (very) slow under Windows.
+
+Using a snapshot from the Git repository
+
+ To use a snapshot, the build system files need to be generated with
+ autogen.sh or "autoreconf -fi" before trying to build using the the
+ above build instructions. You can install the relevant extra packages
+ from MinGW or use Cygwin or use e.g. a GNU/Linux system to create a
+ source package with the required build system files.
+