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| author |   mitchell <70453897+667e-11@users.noreply.github.com> | 2012-10-29 11:17:37 -0400 |
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| committer | mitchell <70453897+667e-11@users.noreply.github.com> | 2012-10-29 11:17:37 -0400 |
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Mention copying dll files when compiling for Win32; doc/12_Compiling.md
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diff --git a/doc/12_Compiling.md b/doc/12_Compiling.md index 3af63124..078b1345 100644 --- a/doc/12_Compiling.md +++ b/doc/12_Compiling.md @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ In addition, BSD users will need to have [libiconv][] installed. Compiling Textadept on Windows is no longer supported. If you wish to do so however, you need a C compiler that supports the C99 standard, the [GTK+ for Windows bundle][] (2.24 is recommended), and [libiconv for Windows][] -(the "Developer files" zip). +(the "Developer files" and "Binaries" zip). The preferred way to compile for Windows is cross-compiling from Linux. To do so, in addition to the GTK+ bundle mentioned above, you need [MinGW][] with the @@ -90,11 +90,12 @@ a normal Linux application, run the usual `make` and then `make install` or ### Cross Compiling for Windows When cross-compiling from within Linux, first unzip the GTK+ for Windows bundle -into a new `src/win32gtk` directory. Also, unzip the libiconv zip into the same +into a new `src/win32gtk` directory. Also, unzip the libiconv zips into the same directory. Then, depending on your MinGW installation, either run `make win32`, modify the `CROSS` variable in the `win32` block of `src/Makefile` and run `make win32`, or run `make CROSS=i486-mingw32- win32` to build -`../textadept.exe` and `../textadeptjit.exe`. +`../textadept.exe` and `../textadeptjit.exe`. Finally, copy the dll files from +`src/win32gtk/bin` to the directory containing the Textadept executables. Please note that a `lua51.dll` is produced for _only_ the `textadeptjit.exe` because limitations on external Lua library loading do not allow statically |