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| author | Nick Nussbaum <nickn@seanet.com> | 2014-11-11 06:10:30 +0300 |
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| committer | Nick Nussbaum <nickn@seanet.com> | 2014-11-11 06:10:30 +0300 |
| commit | d5dc2f0713055d29f43c0146c72bf92bcec0d306 (patch) | |
| tree | 311c503ce4804b1c87531b7af5c456cd58327acf /README.windows.txt | |
| parent | fcd672089c435d30306bd1b0c92b884b17b05e8f (diff) | |
update documentation to mention patched zlib git repository
Diffstat (limited to 'README.windows.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.windows.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/README.windows.txt b/README.windows.txt index 730ebea1..8ca5560c 100644 --- a/README.windows.txt +++ b/README.windows.txt @@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ boost, vowpal_wabbit, and zlib-1.2.8 are directories inside that directory ************************************************************************************************************** (5) Build zlib with Visual Studio 2013 + The patched version of the sources for zlib are up on https://github.com/nicknussbaum/zlibpatched.git + They can also be made as follows. + + (a)Get the zlib 1.28.0 file from http://zlib.net/zlib128.zip (b) unzip zlib-1.2.8.zip into the c:\src\vw\zlib-1.2.8 @@ -75,8 +79,13 @@ boost, vowpal_wabbit, and zlib-1.2.8 are directories inside that directory patch --dry-run -p0 --directory=zlib-1.2.8 --input=../vowpal_wabbit/zlibpatch.txt -F3 check output messages looks good then patch -p0 --directory=zlib-1.2.8 --input=../vowpal_wabbit/zlibpatch.txt -F3 + + + + + - (f) Build the zlib libararies by either of the following steps. + From the patched sources build the zlib libararies by either of the following steps. Launch Visual Studio 2013 Open the solution %ROOT%/zlib-1.2.8\contrib\vstudio\vc11\zlibvc.sln @@ -94,6 +103,9 @@ boost, vowpal_wabbit, and zlib-1.2.8 are directories inside that directory "msbuild /p:Configuration=Release;Platform=x64 zlibstat.vcxproj" Ignore the warnings about Platform 'Itanium' referenced in the project file since Itanium is no longer supported + + + ************************************************************************************************************** (6) Building Boost |