From 30b1573bffbc29a1d927381a990819e79b1dd74e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: divinity76 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 15:53:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] use setup.exe's package manager mode, replacing apt-cyg see #270 for rationale --- README | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 3ae3a9a..efb78fd 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -67,15 +67,11 @@ INSTALLING BUILDING FOR WINDOWS Building for Windows requires Cygwin. To obtain Cygwin, see - https://cygwin.com/install.html. When installing Cygwin, select - the 'lynx' package for installation. lynx is required by apt-cyg. + https://cygwin.com/install.html. + Next, re-run cygwin's setup.exe (or setup-x86_64.exe if you're using 64bit cygwin) with the following arguments, + which will install the packages required for building: - Next, install apt-cyg for easy installation of the remaining - components. See https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg. - - Install the packages required for building: - - apt-cyg install automake pkg-config make gcc-core libncurses-devel + setup.exe --package-manager --wait --packages automake,pkg-config,make,gcc-core,libncurses-devel Build as under Unix: -- 2.47.2