From 20bd5d950de375d3d9e1ee46ee17db504eea6f36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Anderson Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:47:24 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Note getting started developing Rust (markdown) --- Note-getting-started-developing-Rust.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Note-getting-started-developing-Rust.md b/Note-getting-started-developing-Rust.md index 645bc47..74e57c4 100644 --- a/Note-getting-started-developing-Rust.md +++ b/Note-getting-started-developing-Rust.md @@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ Also, make sure you have the `lmodern` font package (see [#3989](https://github. Whether building from source or running the rustc binaries, see [[Using Rust on Windows]] for instructions on setting up MinGW. +#### MSYS + +The MinGW linked to from the above "using Rust" instructions should also be sufficient for building Rust. Note though that to build Rust, we additionally require MSYS, a collection of Unix utilities ported to Windows. We currently recommend the inclusive version of MSYS provided by the [mingw-builds project](http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/MSYS). Extract these to a directory somewhere and make sure they are on your path when building Rust. Using the MSYS shell can also be slightly more pleasant than building directly from the windows terminal. + #### More info for Windows users. It is known that msys make freezes randomly i[f `-jN` option is given](http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29801372).