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| author | Bernard Normier <bernard@zeroc.com> | 2015-07-30 11:38:39 -0400 |
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| committer | Bernard Normier <bernard@zeroc.com> | 2015-07-30 11:38:39 -0400 |
| commit | 18cb1633b6c4d39d785a1280f729e8bf134d9f27 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ae0a1676e95d51b2d7da887cf6b5ba3feb1f383 /cpp/BuildInstructionsMinGW.md | |
| parent | Simplified third-party instructions (diff) | |
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Simplified third-party instructions
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diff --git a/cpp/BuildInstructionsMinGW.md b/cpp/BuildInstructionsMinGW.md index 577ecd72af7..7938e5ca26b 100644 --- a/cpp/BuildInstructionsMinGW.md +++ b/cpp/BuildInstructionsMinGW.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Building Ice for C++ with MinGW -> *MinGW is only supported for building the Ice extension for Ruby. It is not +*MinGW is only supported for building the Ice extension for Ruby. It is not supported for general application development. If you prefer, you can install a [Ruby gem][1] that contains a complete Ice for Ruby run-time.* @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Ice for C++ was tested with the following MinGW compilers: - [mingw 4.7.3 32-bit][2] - mingw 4.7.2 64-bit, included in the [Ruby Development Kit][3] version 4.7.2 -> *mingw 4.7.2 32-bit, included in the 32-bit Ruby Development Kit version +*mingw 4.7.2 32-bit, included in the 32-bit Ruby Development Kit version 4.7.2, contains a very severe bug that makes it unsuitable to build Ice.* ### Third-Party Libraries @@ -24,12 +24,11 @@ Ice has dependencies on the following third-party libraries: - [mcpp][5] 2.7.2 (with patches) You do not need to build these packages yourself, as ZeroC supplies -[Nuget][6] packages for all of the third-party dependencies. +[Nuget][6] packages for all of these third party dependencies. -The Nuget packages used by Ice MinGW builds are [bzip2.mingw4.7.2][7] -and [mcpp.mingw4.7.2][8] you do not need to install these packages manually -they are automatically downloaded and installed to cpp/third-party-packages -folder during Ice build. +The Ice build system for Windows downloads and installs Nuget and these +Nuget packages when you build Ice for C++ with MinGW. The third-party +packages are installed in the ``ice/cpp/third-party-packages`` folder. ## Building Ice @@ -88,5 +87,3 @@ failure, the tests abort with `failed`. [4]: http://bzip.org [5]: https://github.com/zeroc-ice/mcpp [6]: https://www.nuget.org -[7]: https://www.nuget.org/packages/bzip2.mingw4.7.2/1.0.6.2 -[8]: https://www.nuget.org/packages/mcpp.mingw4.7.2/2.7.2.5
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