From a80fbc52004feb6a7d84de87dde809c9ed5d66cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: LRN Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 05:34:07 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Fix win32 README A simple documentation fix (reflecting the fact that pkg-config is not being built against glib-1.2 anymore). --- README.win32 | 12 ------------ 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 04ea456..fb84e8f 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -37,16 +37,4 @@ site. This works as long as the .pc file uses the variable name "prefix" for its installation prefix. At least GLib, ATK, Pango and GTK does this. -On Unix, pkg-config is built using its own copy of GLib 1.2.8. On -Windows, we use the normal GLib available for Windows (2.0.x). Yes, -this does introduce a kind of circular dependency. But, that can be -worked around. The circular dependency only appears if one uses the -configure mechanism to build GLib. GLib's configure script checks for -pkg-config. pkg-config depends on GLib. Thus, starting from scratch, -with no GLib and no pkg-config, using configure, there would indeed be -a Catch-22 situation. However, GLib can be built just fine using the -manually written makefiles for mingw or MSVC. And if somebody does -want to build GLib on Win32 using configure, she can first install a -prebuilt pkgconfig. - --Tor Lillqvist