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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2017-05-27 08:59:00 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2017-05-27 08:59:00 +0200
commit80f21b9446c9f23fee911cb8122dd0f648e2e2b7 (patch)
treee7c5252ab4ddc63c6f74a466af9827579fa921a9
parent23a057513cfb6d7065400c0ff377e65f4756979e (diff)
Add note on matching toolchain/utils width (required by MSYS2 BLODA workaround)
-rw-r--r--BOOTSTRAP-WINDOWS.cli8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/BOOTSTRAP-WINDOWS.cli b/BOOTSTRAP-WINDOWS.cli
index 7e0db13..7aaafd6 100644
--- a/BOOTSTRAP-WINDOWS.cli
+++ b/BOOTSTRAP-WINDOWS.cli
@@ -30,9 +30,11 @@ If you don't already have a suitable C++ compiler, then you can use the
(see the \c{README} file inside for details). If used, then it should be
unpacked into the same directory as \c{build2-baseutils}.
-Note also that it is strongly recommended that you use 64-bit (x86_64)
-versions of the \c{baseutils} and \c{mingw} packages if running 64-bit
-Windows.
+Note also that you \i{must} match the width (32/64-bit) of the toolchain build
+to the \c{baseutils} and \c{mingw} packages. They must all be 32-bit or all
+64-bit. If you are running 64-bit Windows, it is strongly recommended that you
+build the 64-bit (x86_64) version of the toolchain as well as use the 64-bit
+versions of the \c{baseutils} and \c{mingw} packages.
To bootstrap on Windows with either MSVC or MinGW start with the following
common steps: