From 4efdab0059c787c030bfbb32c052bd151e6964d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Anderson Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:27:14 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add MinGW instructions to tutorial --- doc/tutorial.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/tutorial.md b/doc/tutorial.md index 928c7acd9e2a..a03014db22c5 100644 --- a/doc/tutorial.md +++ b/doc/tutorial.md @@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ and add `C:\Program Files\Rust\bin` to your `PATH` environment variable. You should then be able to run the rust compiler as `rustc` directly from the command line. +On Windows Rust additionally requires [MinGW][mingw] (version +20110802 is known to work). It is currently recommended that windows +development be done under the MinGW shell to ensure that the +environment is configured correctly. + We hope to be distributing binary packages for various other operating systems at some point in the future, but at the moment only windows binary installers are being made. Other operating systems must build @@ -129,6 +134,7 @@ for more information on them. [installer]: http://dl.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.1-install.exe [tarball]: http://dl.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.1.tar.gz +[mingw]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-inst/mingw-get-inst-20110802/mingw-get-inst-20110802.exe/download ## Compiling your first program