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| author | Brian Anderson <banderson@mozilla.com> | 2012-01-23 14:08:26 -0800 |
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| committer | Brian Anderson <banderson@mozilla.com> | 2012-01-23 14:09:21 -0800 |
| commit | 088e915feec3c5322dbe2107a5dc1d0a111f2030 (patch) | |
| tree | 744d9baac4f2806f9322d7b453b138bdffdf0e15 | |
| parent | 0143e52580d44e1608d5f16d406601994aa6d95a (diff) | |
| download | rust-088e915feec3c5322dbe2107a5dc1d0a111f2030.tar.gz rust-088e915feec3c5322dbe2107a5dc1d0a111f2030.zip | |
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
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tutorial.md | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tutorial.md b/doc/tutorial.md index 6bfea2a0296..98b911bd4b0 100644 --- a/doc/tutorial.md +++ b/doc/tutorial.md @@ -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 |
