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authorChun-wei Fan <fanchunwei@src.gnome.org>2011-07-25 11:42:17 +0800
committerChun-wei Fan <fanchunwei@src.gnome.org>2011-07-25 11:42:17 +0800
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Update Windows READMEs
-Tell people about that libFFI is now needed. -Tell people not to compile GLib in paths containing spaces.
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Building with Visual Studio
===========================
-In an unpacked tarball, you will find in build\win32\vs9 a solution
-file that can be used to build the GLib DLLs and some auxiliary
-programs. Read the README.txt file in that folder for more
-information. Note that you will need a libintl implementation, and
-zlib.
+Please do not build GLib in paths that contain spaces in them, as
+this may cause problems during compilation and during usage of the
+library.
+
+In an unpacked tarball, you will find in build\win32\vs9 (VS 2008) and
+build\win32\vs10 (VS 2010) a solution file that can be used to build
+the GLib DLLs and some auxiliary programs under VS 2008 and VS 2010
+(Express Edition will suffice with the needed dependencies) respectively.
+Read the README.txt file in those folders for more
+information. Note that you will need a libintl implementation, zlib, and
+libFFI.
If you are building from a GIT checkout, you will first need to use some
Unix-like environment or run build/win32/setup.py,