[meld.wiki] Update Building binaries
- From: Kai Willadsen <kaiw src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [meld.wiki] Update Building binaries
- Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 22:01:05 +0000 (UTC)
commit 01a1d846ca1536c5e1b399d963083f0818d168b0
Author: Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>
Date: Sat Aug 3 22:01:02 2019 +0000
Update Building binaries
Building-binaries.md | 23 +++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Building-binaries.md b/Building-binaries.md
index 3127708..9384556 100644
--- a/Building-binaries.md
+++ b/Building-binaries.md
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
-## Building current Meld on Windows
-
-Meld has migrated to using an msys2 environment on Gitlab CI for building Windows binaries.
+## Getting Meld code
-With a working msys2 environment, get a clone of the Meld repository using:
+Meld is hosted on GNOME's Gitlab instance. See https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/Developers#Getting_Code for ways
to clone from GNOME's Gitlab, but you can get started with:
```
git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld.git
```
-From that folder, reproducing the steps in the `mingw32-dist` and `mingw-common` sections of
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml should give you an installable MSI.
+
+
+## Building current Meld on Windows
+
+Meld has migrated to using an msys2 environment on Gitlab CI for building Windows binaries.
+
+With a working msys2 environment, clone the Meld repository as above. From your local checkout, reproducing
the steps in the `mingw32-dist` and `mingw-common` sections of
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml should give you an installable MSI.
## Building pre-3.20 Meld on Windows
@@ -24,15 +28,6 @@ As of version 3.11.1, Meld supports building on Windows.
Check the SOURCES file in the [binary download directory](https://download.gnome.org/binaries/win32/meld/)
for a binary release to see what versions of the above were used. PyGObject Win32 is the dependency most
likely to cause issues if using a different version than that which has been tested. msysgit is used purely
for the scripting environment, so any version should be fine.
-### Getting Meld code
-
-Using git from the command line:
-
-```
-git clone git gitlab gnome org:GNOME/meld.git
-```
-
-
### Building
Almost nothing in Meld actually requires building; we are just gathering and
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