From 00d459a93fb5043d82f8b1893aa5b6f55c2fed5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: CDirkx Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 01:22:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update MinGW instructions to include ninja Added the `mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja` package to the build guide for MinGW, as well as a note not to use the `ninja` package from the `msys2` subsystem (doesn't handle paths correctly on windows). --- README.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index fe9776bc5f8..095ffdd04b9 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ build. # Install build tools needed for Rust. If you're building a 32-bit compiler, # then replace "x86_64" below with "i686". If you've already got git, python, # or CMake installed and in PATH you can remove them from this list. Note - # that it is important that you do **not** use the 'python2' and 'cmake' + # that it is important that you do **not** use the 'python2', 'cmake' and 'ninja' # packages from the 'msys2' subsystem. The build has historically been known # to fail with these packages. $ pacman -S git \ @@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ build. tar \ mingw-w64-x86_64-python \ mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake \ - mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc + mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc \ + mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja ``` 4. Navigate to Rust's source code (or clone it), then build it: