Diego Biurrun
57b753b445
build: Prefer NASM assembler over YASM
...
NASM is more actively maintained and permits generating dependency information
as a sideeffect of assembling, thus cutting build times in half.
2017-03-07 08:32:37 +01:00
Diego Biurrun
3794062ab1
Remove Plan 9 support
...
Supporting the system was a nice joke for the 9 release, but it has
run its course. Nowadays Plan 9 receives no testing and has no
practical usefulness.
2016-12-03 09:15:01 +01:00
Vittorio Giovara
41ed7ab45f
cosmetics: Fix spelling mistakes
...
Signed-off-by: Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>
2016-05-04 18:16:21 +02:00
Luca Barbato
b0e8651a2a
doc: Amend the MSYS2 Documentation
...
Explain better which environment is discouraged and mention the
shortcuts names.
2015-11-26 10:55:35 +01:00
Luca Barbato
6b7df14251
doc: Document better how to use MSYS2
2015-11-23 13:05:09 +01:00
Martin Storsjö
6d3081e6c3
doc: Remove the now unnecessary remark about PATH and link.exe
...
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
2015-07-27 10:44:31 +03:00
Clément Bœsch
a982c5d74f
tests: drop bc dependency
...
We already have a dependency on awk and bc is sometimes not found in the
base system.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
2015-02-21 11:17:45 +02:00
Derek Buitenhuis
da9bffaf08
doc/platform: Reference only MSYS2 and MinGW-w64
...
It's better to steer users at these, since they are both better
and more alive than the mingw.org versions.
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
2015-01-21 13:57:03 +00:00
Luca Barbato
bb0babd705
build: Support executable only ldflags
...
The options is useful to build position-independent executables on
hardened systems (e.g. Android L and Gentoo Hardened).
2014-07-21 22:18:35 +02:00
Andrew Kelley
33a7b453a8
doc: mention option to mix shared/static libraries
...
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
2014-07-09 09:57:10 -04:00
Diego Biurrun
463a7cde56
Differentiate assembler and assembly in documentation and comments
...
The language and the program that consumes the language are not the same.
2014-06-22 23:15:14 +02:00
Martin Storsjö
d15c536123
doc: Point to the correct, actually maintained gas-preprocessor repo
...
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
2014-03-12 20:43:55 +02:00
Derek Buitenhuis
fa515c2088
doc/platform: Update to reflect current MSVC build situation
...
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
2013-11-27 13:39:03 +00:00
Derek Buitenhuis
b0ce601c16
doc/platform: Add info about ICL
...
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
2013-06-24 13:06:01 -04:00
Derek Buitenhuis
f2f57d1679
doc/platform: Remove part about dllimport
...
Only deprecated things need this at all anymore, as we have functions
to access them or they are no longer needed.
The document should not encourage use of deprecated APIs.
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
2013-03-30 13:52:02 -04:00
Derek Buitenhuis
130cefc9dc
doc/platform: Fix 10l typo
...
This error was somehow missed for months.
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
2013-02-13 18:41:37 -05:00
Martin Storsjö
c19e9d00a7
doc: Point to the new location of the c99-to-c89 tool
...
This location contains prebuilt binaries as well.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
2012-11-01 22:47:50 +02:00
Mans Rullgard
4ebc6a7410
build: Plan 9 support
...
This adds support for building on Plan 9 x86-32. The compat/plan9
directory contains these items:
- replacements for the 'head' and 'printf' shell commands
- wrapper for main() to disable FPU exceptions
Larger required changes to the system are described in the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
2012-10-23 12:01:18 +01:00
Derek Buitenhuis
2d09b36c03
doc/platform: Add info on shared builds with MSVC
...
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
2012-10-20 12:55:59 -04:00
Derek Buitenhuis
f2a7236d0c
doc/platform: Move a caveat down to the notes section
...
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
2012-10-20 12:55:59 -04:00
Derek Buitenhuis
7d1d446990
doc/platform: Rework the Visual Studio linking section
...
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
2012-09-28 15:52:21 -04:00
Derek Buitenhuis
f45b54437a
doc/platform: Replace Visual Studio section with build instructions
...
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
2012-09-28 15:50:32 -04:00
Derek Buitenhuis
3e071551af
doc/platform: Nuke section on linking static MinGW-built libs with MSVC
...
This practice is not supported by the MinGW developers, and even requires
patching the MinGW runtimes in newer versions. Furthermore, we now support
build with MSVC, so this section is rendered useless.
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
2012-09-28 15:27:59 -04:00
Derek Buitenhuis
55254a3f7f
doc/platform: Remove false claim about MinGW installer
...
This works just fine, and has for quite a while, using the mingw-get
installer.
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
2012-09-28 15:27:25 -04:00
Derek Buitenhuis
6a3078bb89
doc/platform: Mention MinGW-w64
...
This is the toolchain most, including Libav's nightlies, use to build.
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
2012-09-28 15:27:13 -04:00
Diego Biurrun
52561d0116
doc: Drop obsolete shared libs cflags hint to workaround Cygwin gcc bugs
2012-08-09 20:05:54 +02:00
Diego Biurrun
578344f79c
doc: cygwin: Update list of FATE package requirements
2012-08-07 22:54:44 +02:00
Diego Biurrun
90c9edba58
doc: Replace some @file tags by more suitable markup.
2012-05-18 16:08:41 +02:00
Diego Biurrun
d19f3e9a2a
doc: misc improvements for the Windows section
...
Fix some orthography, wording and grammar issues; update the SDL section
with more current instructions; simplify lib.exe example command line;
drop outdated comments about libnut.
2012-05-14 13:05:39 +02:00
Diego Biurrun
a229d6c285
Remove libdirac decoder.
...
libschroedinger is the preferred way to decode Dirac video.
2012-04-23 09:20:24 +02:00
Diego Biurrun
5ea20630b4
Fix a bunch of platform name and other typos.
2012-01-11 13:48:30 +01:00
Luca Barbato
1de6e14efe
doc: split platform specific information
...
Move the platform-specific information in its own file.
2011-12-09 18:26:31 +01:00