Welcome to mirror list, hosted at ThFree Co, Russian Federation.

cygwin.com/git/newlib-cygwin.git - Unnamed repository; edit this file 'description' to name the repository.
summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>2022-12-14 01:22:20 +0300
committerJon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>2022-12-21 14:39:26 +0300
commit87968453dda533a21a4a8dccd2c573cd16c40695 (patch)
tree2dea86e43ea9be8c6e69ca7366e0d4365b5bfa75 /winsup/doc
parent2af7dd95671197f43fb8c2c6d30461c143d63b03 (diff)
Cygwin: FAQ: Mention configure options to build with reduced dependencies
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/doc')
-rw-r--r--winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml15
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml
index 632d1a173..a24b781cf 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml
+++ b/winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml
@@ -679,14 +679,21 @@ rewriting the runtime library in question from specs...
installed; you at least need <literal>gcc-g++</literal>,
<literal>make</literal>, <literal>automake</literal>,
<literal>autoconf</literal>, <literal>git</literal>, <literal>perl</literal>,
+<literal>cocom</literal> and <literal>patch</literal>.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Additionally, building the <code>dumper</code> utility requires
<literal>gettext-devel</literal>, <literal>libiconv-devel</literal>
-<literal>zlib-devel</literal>, <literal>cocom</literal> and <literal>patch</literal>.
+<literal>zlib-devel</literal>.
</para>
<para>
-Building for 64-bit Cygwin also requires
-<literal>mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++</literal> and
-<literal>mingw64-x86_64-zlib</literal>.
+Building those Cygwin utilities which are not themselves Cygwin programs
+(e.g. <code>cygcheck</code> and <code>strace</code>) also requires
+<literal>mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++</literal> and <literal>mingw64-x86_64-zlib</literal>.
+Building these programs can be disabled with the <literal>--without-cross-bootstrap</literal>
+option to <literal>configure</literal>.
</para>
<!-- If you want to run the tests, <literal>dejagnu</literal> is also required. -->