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authorChun-wei Fan <fanchunwei@src.gnome.org>2014-08-02 12:02:26 +0800
committerChun-wei Fan <fanchunwei@src.gnome.org>2015-07-30 10:53:55 +0800
commitaf054fef0949e47098aa39fd2fe90c6c174eeadb (patch)
treed807b1e6c8e1ed5b367eadc042ef81ae70d677f8 /build
parent8aabc213f26f1de693f58619035d71703d23bc91 (diff)
downloadgobject-introspection-af054fef0949e47098aa39fd2fe90c6c174eeadb.tar.gz
MSVC Builds: Update README.txt's
Remove mentions about the GCC requirement for building the introspection files, as that is no longer needed. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728313
Diffstat (limited to 'build')
-rw-r--r--build/win32/vs10/README.txt17
-rw-r--r--build/win32/vs9/README.txt15
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/build/win32/vs10/README.txt b/build/win32/vs10/README.txt
index db905a11..f682fe3c 100644
--- a/build/win32/vs10/README.txt
+++ b/build/win32/vs10/README.txt
@@ -48,19 +48,15 @@ into <root>\vs10\<PlatformName>\include\ and the compiled static libffi.lib
<root>\vs10\<PlatformName>\lib\.
The libintl.h that is used for building GLib needs to be in
-<root>\vs10\<PlatformName>\include, if not already done so
-
-You will also need a working GCC/MinGW compiler installation
-in order to generate the .gir and .typelib files. One may be
-obtained from the mingw or the mingw64 project.
+<root>\vs10\<PlatformName>\include, if not already done so.
A working pkg-config tool is also required-it may be obtained from
http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php [32-bit]
http://www.gtk.org/download/win64.php [64-bit]
*** Note! ***
-Please note that due to numerous possible configurations on Python, PKG_CONFIG_PATH and
-MinGW, the build of G-I is now a 2-step process: one with the Visual Studio Projects that
+Please note that due to numerous possible configurations on Python, PKG_CONFIG_PATH,
+the build of G-I is now a 2-step process: one with the Visual Studio Projects that
will build the libraries, tools, Python Module and test DLLs (except for the everything
test), and the other one with NMake Makefiles for building the introspection files.
Please note that if one needs to change the installation location
@@ -77,13 +73,6 @@ PYTHON2: Full path to your Python 2.6.x/2.7.x interpretor (python.exe) if it is
You need to use an x64/amd64 version of Python for x64 builds, and a Win32/x86
version of Python for Win32/x86 builds
PKG_CONFIG_PATH: Location of the .pc (pkg-config) files, especially for the GLib .pc files.
-MINGWDIR: Root installation folder for your Windows GCC (such as MinGW). For example,
- if your gcc executable (gcc.exe) is in c:\mingw\bin, use "set MINGWDIR=c:\mingw"
- You need to use an x64/amd64 version of gcc for x64 builds, and a Win32/x86
- version of gcc for Win32/x86 builds
-
-GCC is currently needed to as the GCC preprocessor is used to create the introspection dump source
-file, which is then compiled with the Visual C++ compiler to produce the .gir files.
Please see $(srcroot)\build\gi-introspection-msvc.mak for more details. Doing
"nmake -f gi-introspection-msvc.mak (options omitted)" will build the various introspection files,
diff --git a/build/win32/vs9/README.txt b/build/win32/vs9/README.txt
index c7de4ee1..2aa7891e 100644
--- a/build/win32/vs9/README.txt
+++ b/build/win32/vs9/README.txt
@@ -50,17 +50,13 @@ into <root>\vs9\<PlatformName>\include\ and the compiled static libffi.lib
The libintl.h that is used for building GLib needs to be in
<root>\vs9\<PlatformName>\include, if not already done so
-You will also need a working GCC/MinGW compiler installation
-in order to generate the .gir and .typelib files. One may be
-obtained from the mingw or the mingw64 project.
-
A working pkg-config tool is also required-it may be obtained from
http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php [32-bit]
http://www.gtk.org/download/win64.php [64-bit]
*** Note! ***
-Please note that due to numerous possible configurations on Python, PKG_CONFIG_PATH and
-MinGW, the build of G-I is now a 2-step process: one with the Visual Studio Projects that
+Please note that due to numerous possible configurations on Python and PKG_CONFIG_PATH,
+the build of G-I is now a 2-step process: one with the Visual Studio Projects that
will build the libraries, tools, Python Module and test DLLs (except for the everything
test), and the other one with NMake Makefiles for building the introspection files.
Please note that if one needs to change the installation location
@@ -77,13 +73,6 @@ PYTHON2: Full path to your Python 2.6.x/2.7.x interpretor (python.exe) if it is
You need to use an x64/amd64 version of Python for x64 builds, and a Win32/x86
version of Python for Win32/x86 builds
PKG_CONFIG_PATH: Location of the .pc (pkg-config) files, especially for the GLib .pc files.
-MINGWDIR: Root installation folder for your Windows GCC (such as MinGW). For example,
- if your gcc executable (gcc.exe) is in c:\mingw\bin, use "set MINGWDIR=c:\mingw"
- You need to use an x64/amd64 version of gcc for x64 builds, and a Win32/x86
- version of gcc for Win32/x86 builds
-
-GCC is currently needed to as the GCC preprocessor is used to create the introspection dump source
-file, which is then compiled with the Visual C++ compiler to produce the .gir files.
Please see $(srcroot)\build\gi-introspection-msvc.mak for more details. Doing
"nmake -f gi-introspection-msvc.mak (options omitted)" will build the various introspection files,