From: Tim Kientzle Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:29:31 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Tweak the "other platforms" installation instructions; this X-Git-Tag: v2.7.0~174 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d4682a2cd02b0c6015afdccd6264ff10ec096923;p=thirdparty%2Flibarchive.git Tweak the "other platforms" installation instructions; this needs lots more help. SVN-Revision: 755 --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 73fbc1b6a..12eb187c2 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -13,7 +13,11 @@ If you are developing libarchive and need to update the configure script and other build files: /bin/sh build/autogen.sh -On non-Unix-like systems, you should be able to create -build files suitable for your system by using "cmake". -You may need to first obtain a suitable version of cmake -for your system from http://cmake.org/ +On non-Unix-like systems, use the "cmake" utility (available from +http://cmake.org/) to generate suitable build files for your platform. +Cmake requires the name of the directory containing CmakeLists.txt and +the "generator" to use for your build environment. For example, to +build with Xcode on Mac OS, you can use the following command: + cmake -G "Xcode" ~/libarchive-download-dir/ + +