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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9d85487f793..acd9cb6afc8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -87,6 +87,13 @@ Read ["Installing Rust"] from [The Book]. $ ./configure $ make && make install ``` +> ***Note:*** gcc versions >= 5 currently have issues building LLVM on Windows +> resulting in a segmentation fault when building Rust. In order to avoid this +> it may be necessary to obtain an earlier version of gcc such as 4.9.x. +> Installers for earlier Windows builds of gcc are available at the +> [Mingw-Builds] project. For more information on this see issue #28260. + +[Mingw-Builds]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/ ## Building Documentation |