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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2019-02-18 10:43:30 -0500 |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2019-02-19 07:10:59 -0500 |
| commit | 55ad9304ed87f365e69b5dc01d5b07d25aecc9e2 (patch) | |
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README: Explain how to bootstrap via MSYS2 on Windows
Inspired-by: Bartosz Kosiorek <bartosz.kosiorek@tomtom.com>
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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 775463e9fe..11bafca078 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -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 ------------------------- |