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| author | Chun-wei Fan <fanchunwei@src.gnome.org> | 2011-07-25 11:47:27 +0800 |
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| committer | Chun-wei Fan <fanchunwei@src.gnome.org> | 2011-07-25 11:47:27 +0800 |
| commit | 79c759756f95e0432e4aea834a810fed18909771 (patch) | |
| tree | f2a5aedcc1748f30cdf9db5913f310373eae108a | |
| parent | 829be7de48532669b94349800a9766698025caa8 (diff) | |
Update Windows READMEs
Tell people not to compile GLib in paths containing spaces.
| -rw-r--r-- | README.win32 | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | build/win32/vs10/README.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | build/win32/vs9/README.txt | 4 |
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 25d06aeb8..0e82f1bf5 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -159,11 +159,20 @@ and libtool documentation. 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 and zlib. + +If you are building from a GIT checkout, you will first need to use some +Unix-like environment to expand the VS 2008/2010 project files, +the DLL resouce files and other miscellanious files required for the build. Building with MSVC and NMAKE ============================ diff --git a/build/win32/vs10/README.txt b/build/win32/vs10/README.txt index 19de3cb41..d92bf00cb 100644 --- a/build/win32/vs10/README.txt +++ b/build/win32/vs10/README.txt @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -Note that all this is rather experimental.
+Please do not compile this package (GLib) in paths that contain
+spaces in them-as strange problems may occur during compilation or during
+the use of the library.
This VS10 solution and the projects it includes are intented to be used
in a GLib source tree unpacked from a tarball. In a git checkout you
diff --git a/build/win32/vs9/README.txt b/build/win32/vs9/README.txt index a66253ea1..3e1cdb388 100644 --- a/build/win32/vs9/README.txt +++ b/build/win32/vs9/README.txt @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -Note that all this is rather experimental.
+Please do not compile this package (GLib) in paths that contain
+spaces in them-as strange problems may occur during compilation or during
+the use of the library.
This VS9 solution and the projects it includes are intented to be used
in a GLib source tree unpacked from a tarball. In a git checkout you
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