I have recently build the u-boot tools on Windows and ran into
difficulties. This patch to the documentation would have avoided
those difficulties. Contentious points:
* While I have run the document through a rst previewer, I haven't run
the full test suite. I know, I know, everyone thinks _they_ don't
need to run the tests because reasons, but I think it's true this
time.
* I have removed the version numbers from the list of packages. I
don't think they are helpful, and are just maintenance overhead. (I
don't think I got those versions for example).
I'd be grateful if @Bin Meng could review this, because `git blame`
says the file I am changing is all his.
No actual changes, but hopefully closer to the required formalities:
Signed-off-by: Martin Bonner <martingreybe...@gmail.com>
commit e3615603d919ab19fddbee4a68e8a37b91a75f3e (HEAD ->
better-windows-build-doc)
Author: Martin Bonner <martingreybe...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue Jul 5 09:10:59 2022 +0100
Tweak docs for building tools on Windows
* Add three more modules that are required.
* Remove the version numbers (because they are hard to keep in sync)
* Add a pacman command line to install everything.
diff --git a/doc/build/tools.rst b/doc/build/tools.rst
index c06f915274..95f1246617 100644
--- a/doc/build/tools.rst
+++ b/doc/build/tools.rst
@@ -24,14 +24,20 @@ you can use MSYS2, a software distro and building
platform for Windows.
Download the MSYS2 installer from https://www.msys2.org. Make sure you have
installed all required packages below in order to build these host tools::
- * gcc (9.1.0)
- * make (4.2.1)
- * bison (3.4.2)
- * diffutils (3.7)
- * openssl-devel (1.1.1.d)
-
-Note the version numbers in these parentheses above are the package versions
-at the time being when writing this document. The MSYS2 installer tested is
+ * gcc
+ * make
+ * bison
+ * diffutils
+ * openssl-devel
+ * flex
+ * libgnutls-devel
+ * libuuid-devel
+
+You probably want ``git`` as well. You can install all these with::
+
+ $ pacman -S gcc make bison diffutils openssl=devel flex
libgnutls-devel libuuid-devel git
+
+The MSYS2 installer tested is
http://repo.msys2.org/distrib/x86_64/msys2-x86_64-20190524.exe.
There are 3 MSYS subsystems installed: MSYS2, MinGW32 and MinGW64. Each
--
Martin
