X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=4da0d249132ad0d327b0f157862a317a25bc9c6c;hb=d10983d7;hp=e90f4938fc23879aab9ed57703c80c88015d55d7;hpb=1b8c5af7ba80122c91dce457e18c55b34e2c28b1;p=fio.git diff --git a/README b/README index e90f4938..4da0d249 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -105,24 +105,20 @@ Configure will attempt to determine the target platform automatically. Windows ------- -On Windows Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) is required in order to -build fio. To create an MSI installer package install WiX 3.7 from +On Windows, Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) is required in order to +build fio. To create an MSI installer package install WiX 3.8 from http://wixtoolset.org and run dobuild.cmd from the os/windows directory. -How to compile FIO on 64-bit Windows: +How to compile fio on 64-bit Windows: - 1. Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe). Install 'make' and all + 1. Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/). Install 'make' and all packages starting with 'mingw64-i686' and 'mingw64-x86_64'. - 2. Download ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-9-1-release/dll/x64/pthreadGC2.dll - and copy to the fio source directory. - 3. Open the Cygwin Terminal. - 4. Go to the fio directory (source files). - 5. Run 'make clean'. - 6. Run 'make'. - -To build fio on 32-bit Windows, download x86/pthreadGC2.dll instead and do -'./configure --build-32bit-win=yes' before 'make'. + 2. Open the Cygwin Terminal. + 3. Go to the fio directory (source files). + 4. Run 'make clean && make -j'. + +To build fio on 32-bit Windows, run './configure --build-32bit-win' before 'make'. It's recommended that once built or installed, fio be run in a Command Prompt or other 'native' console such as console2, since there are known to be display