diff options
| author | Craig Scott <craig.scott@crascit.com> | 2019-02-19 12:55:59 (GMT) |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2019-02-19 12:56:06 (GMT) |
| commit | 9cab31cc79b9c19f2a5121a392a3498d06e25723 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f17e70149804bdd663c4ac8e0a47fcf2009fd2f | |
| parent | 2dd2079152ceda32a7e5f330f7182fd658716c41 (diff) | |
| parent | 55ad9304ed87f365e69b5dc01d5b07d25aecc9e2 (diff) | |
| download | CMake-9cab31cc79b9c19f2a5121a392a3498d06e25723.zip CMake-9cab31cc79b9c19f2a5121a392a3498d06e25723.tar.gz CMake-9cab31cc79b9c19f2a5121a392a3498d06e25723.tar.bz2 | |
Merge topic 'readme-msys2'
55ad9304ed README: Explain how to bootstrap via MSYS2 on Windows
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Acked-by: Bartosz <gang65@poczta.onet.pl>
Merge-request: !2983
| -rw-r--r-- | README.rst | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -67,11 +67,24 @@ choice. Once this has finished successfully, run ``make`` and Windows ^^^^^^^ -You need to download and install a binary release of CMake in order to build -CMake. You can get these releases from the `CMake Download Page`_. Then -proceed with the instructions below. +There are two ways for building CMake under Windows: + +1. Compile with MSVC from VS 2015 or later. + You need to download and install a binary release of CMake. You can get + these releases from the `CMake Download Page`_. Then proceed with the + instructions below for `Building CMake with CMake`_. + +2. Bootstrap with MinGW under MSYS2. + Download and install `MSYS2`_. Then install the required build tools:: + + $ pacman -S --needed git base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc + + and bootstrap as above:: + + $ ./bootstrap && make .. _`CMake Download Page`: https://cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html +.. _`MSYS2`: https://www.msys2.org/ Building CMake with CMake ------------------------- |