[vlc-commits] INSTALL.win32: clarify

[Rafaël Carré]

vlc | branch: master | Rafaël Carré <rafael.carre at gmail.com> | Tue Jun 14 22:04:21 2011 -0400| [1852b7e190dc6144324b4dd6b15649d807a78a26] | committer: Rafaël Carré

INSTALL.win32: clarify

Explain why we prefer to build under GNU/Linux
Remove completely mention of Visual Studio, it 'will not work' anyway
Use of Cygwin is discouraged

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=1852b7e190dc6144324b4dd6b15649d807a78a26
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 INSTALL.win32 |   13 ++++++-------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL.win32 b/INSTALL.win32
index ff8050f..d8f83f1 100644
--- a/INSTALL.win32
+++ b/INSTALL.win32
@@ -24,21 +24,20 @@ Building VLC from the source code
 If you want to build VLC from sources, you can do it in several ways:
 
 - On GNU/Linux, using the mingw32 cross-compiler.
-  This method is preferred over all the others.
+  This is the preferred method, as this is the one used by VideoLAN to
+  build the official Windows binaries.
 
 - natively on Windows, using MSYS+MINGW (www.mingw.org)
   (MSYS is a minimal build environment to compile Unixish projects under
   windows. It provides all the common Unix tools like sh, gmake...)
 
-UNSUPPORTED METHODS
--------------------
+UNSUPPORTED METHOD
+------------------
+
 - natively on Windows, using cygwin (www.cygwin.com) with or without the
-  POSIX emulation layer. This is the preferred way to compile vlc if you want
-  to do it on Windows.
+  POSIX emulation layer.
   Read http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwinNew to have a complete HOWTO
 
-- natively on Windows, using Microsoft Visual Studio. This will not work.
-
 
 Getting the right compiler tools
 ================================