[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] docs: update the prerequisites section

Ian Romanick idr at freedesktop.org
Mon May 19 11:22:01 PDT 2014


LGTM

Reviewed-by: Ian Romanick <ian.d.romanick at intel.com>

On 05/19/2014 07:17 AM, Brian Paul wrote:
> SCons is required for Windows.  Add links to flex/bison for Windows.
> Reorder items and improve formatting.
> ---
>  docs/install.html |   15 ++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/install.html b/docs/install.html
> index 5061ede..f12425f 100644
> --- a/docs/install.html
> +++ b/docs/install.html
> @@ -34,16 +34,25 @@
>  
>  <h2>1.1 General</h2>
>  <ul>
> +<li><a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> - Python is required.
> +Version 2.6.4 or later should work.
> +</li>
> +<br>
> +<li><a href="http://www.scons.org/">SCons</a> is required for building on
> +Windows and optional for Linux (it's an alternative to autoconf/automake.)
> +</li>
> +<br>
>  <li>lex / yacc - for building the GLSL compiler.
> +<br>
> +<br>
>  On Linux systems, flex and bison are used.
>  Versions 2.5.35 and 2.4.1, respectively, (or later) should work.
>  <br>
>  <br>
>  On Windows with MinGW, install flex and bison with:
>  <pre>mingw-get install msys-flex msys-bison</pre>
> -</li>
> -<li>python - Python is needed for building the Gallium components.
> -Version 2.6.4 or later should work.
> +For MSVC on Windows, you can find flex/bison programs on the
> +<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/windows-utils/">Mesa ftp site</a>.
>  </li>
>  </ul>
>  



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