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authorBrian Anderson <banderson@mozilla.com>2012-01-23 14:08:26 -0800
committerBrian Anderson <banderson@mozilla.com>2012-01-23 14:09:21 -0800
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Remove mention of Windows installer from tutorial
We don't want users to hurt themselves, since the installer has
a bug in 0.1 that could possibly corrupt %PATH%

Conflicts:

	doc/tutorial.md
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diff --git a/doc/tutorial.md b/doc/tutorial.md
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@@ -91,11 +91,6 @@ packages:
   * gnu make 3.81 or later
   * curl
 
-On Windows Rust 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.
-
 Assuming you're on a relatively modern Linux system and have met the
 prerequisites, something along these lines should work:
 
@@ -108,6 +103,9 @@ $ ./configure
 $ make && make install
 ~~~~
 
+Building from source on windows requires some extra steps, please see
+the [getting started][wiki-get-started] page on the Rust wiki.
+
 When complete, `make install` will place the following programs into
 `/usr/local/bin`:
 
@@ -120,10 +118,10 @@ a set of host and target libraries under `/usr/local/lib/rustc`.
 
 The install locations can be adjusted by passing a `--prefix` argument
 to `configure`. Various other options are also supported, pass `--help`
-for more information on them. 
+for more information on them.
 
+[wiki-get-started]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-getting-started
 [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