X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=53ece8eac028a5737966de23e56731e617a95535;hb=a9e301a59cf5ce9de16c000ca17efec469865ddd;hp=79e93fc9982f4e9e596e21b9536d966edde05447;hpb=72c0796c47a86d7944b9a9302a00b07d68d44f38;p=fedora-mingw.git diff --git a/README b/README index 79e93fc..53ece8e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -10,21 +10,41 @@ Other useful information: Build order & package notes: - (1) mingw-bootstrap + ( 1) mingw-filesystem - This is not a real Fedora package. Instead it is a binary - package which is just needed first time if you are building - from scratch. It contains some Windows binaries and header - files which are needed to bootstrap everything, and which - would normally be built by the packages below (specifically - by mingw-runtime and mingw-w32api). + This is the base package containing the filesystem, RPM macros + and other stuff that everything depends on. This is a pure + Fedora RPM with no outside dependencies. - (2) mingw-binutils + ( 2) mingw-binutils - (3) mingw-gcc + This is just a straight cross-compile of binutils. It has + no BuildRequires beyond what is in basic Fedora already. - (4) mingw-runtime - (5) mingw-w32api + ( 3) mingw-runtime-bootstrap + ( 4) mingw-w32api-bootstrap - Note that once built and installed, these last two replace the - files built from binaries in mingw-bootstrap. + These are NOT real Fedora packages. Instead they are BINARY + packages which is just needed first time if you are building + from scratch. It contains some Windows binaries and header + files which are needed to bootstrap everything, and which + would normally be built by the packages below (specifically + by mingw-runtime and mingw-w32api). + + Note: If you already have mingw packages installed then you + should not build this package. + + ( 5) mingw-gcc + + ( 6) mingw-runtime + ( 7) mingw-w32api + + Note that once built and installed, these last two replace the + files built from binaries in mingw-{runtime,w32api}-bootstrap. + +Then for the rest, use ./show-build-order.pl which is a script which +works out the correct order to build packages and will display the +list of commands that you have to invoke to do this. + +(Note that show-build-order.pl doesn't actually build anything - it +just prints suggested commands).