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| author | Evan Martin <martine@danga.com> | 2015-06-30 22:26:20 (GMT) |
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| committer | Evan Martin <martine@danga.com> | 2015-06-30 22:29:15 (GMT) |
| commit | 53e5aed022b09d38e219b31cc9af4574cb948327 (patch) | |
| tree | f32a613f70509bab824671bf6e6152e561585f2c /README | |
| parent | d18eda4c3ed7d81c3f8d6d46972a0988f1ebb05e (diff) | |
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point people at more detailed build docs if they're on Windows
It's a hard balance between "most people want to run configure --bootstrap" and
"here's a massive wall of text of every detail about building". I think the
balance in this change is better than it was before -- most people on Windows
don't want to build their own binary.
Fixes #983.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -5,13 +5,14 @@ See the manual -- http://martine.github.com/ninja/manual.html or doc/manual.asciidoc included in the distribution -- for background and more details. -To build, run ./configure.py --bootstrap. It first compiles all non-test -source files together, then re-builds Ninja using itself. You should -end up with a 'ninja' binary in the source root. - -Run './configure.py --help' for more configuration options. +Binaries for Linux, Mac, and Windows are available at + https://github.com/martine/ninja/releases Run './ninja -h' for Ninja help. +To build your own binary, on many platforms it should be sufficient to +just run `./configure.py --bootstrap`; for more details see HACKING.md. +(Also read that before making changes to Ninja, as it has advice.) + Installation is not necessary because the only required file is is the resulting ninja binary. However, to enable features like Bash completion and Emacs and Vim editing modes, some files in misc/ must be |