[gnugo-devel] Documentation updates for cygwin and mingw32

[Teun Burgers]

The attached patch contains updates on the
installation notes for cygwin and cygwin hosted mingw32.

- update installation notes for cygwin and cygwin hosted mingw32

Teun

Index: install.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/gnugo/gnugo/doc/install.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 install.texi
--- install.texi        8 Sep 2004 17:03:42 -0000       1.16
+++ install.texi        18 Sep 2004 21:04:08 -0000
@@ -309,14 +309,20 @@
 of snprintf.
 
 @node Cygwin
address@hidden Windows NT, Windows 95/98 using Cygwin
address@hidden Windows NT, 2000, XP, 95/98/ME using Cygwin
 
-On these platforms the Cygwin environment can be installed. Recent
-versions of Cygwin install very easily with the setup program available
-from the cygwin homepage.  @url{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/}.
-GNU Go compiles out-of-the box using the standard Unix build procedure
-on the Cygwin environment. After installation of cygwin and fetching
address@hidden you can type:
+Cygwin is a full fledged and rapidly maturing unix environment on top of
+windows. Cygwin installs very easily with the interactive setup program
+available from the cygwin homepage at @url{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/}.
+In fact precompiled versions of stable GNU go releases as well as of the cgoban
+X11 GUI can be downloaded through Cygwin's setup. Cygwin's setup also provides
+precompiled packages of most of the unix tools necessary to participate in
+development.
+
+If you want to build GNU Go yourself make sure to download the ncurses packages
+prior to building GNU go. GNU Go compiles out-of-the box using the standard
+Unix build procedure on the Cygwin environment. After installation of cygwin
+and fetching @file{gnugo-3.6.tar.gz} you can type:
 
 @example
   tar zxvf gnugo-3.6.tar.gz
@@ -329,19 +335,14 @@
 cygwin1.dll that comes with the Cygwin environment. cygwin1.dll
 contains the emulation layer for Unix.
 
-Cygwin Home page: @url{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/}
-
-Optionally you can use glib to get a working version of snprintf.
-Glib builds out of the box on cygwin.
-
 @node MinGW32, VC, Cygwin, Windows and MS-DOS
address@hidden Windows NT, Windows 95/98 using MinGW32
address@hidden Windows NT, 2000, XP, 95/98/ME using MinGW32
 
-The Cygwin environment also comes with MinGW32. This generates an
-executable that relies only on Microsoft DLLs. This executable is thus
-completely comparable to a Visual C executable and easier to distribute
-than the Cygwin executable. To build on cygwin an executable suitable
-for the win32 platform type the following at your cygwin prompt:
+The Cygwin environment also comes with MinGW32. The mingw32 platform generates
+an executable that relies only on Microsoft DLLs. This executable is thus
+completely comparable to a Visual C executable and easier to distribute than
+the Cygwin executable. To build on cygwin an executable suitable for the win32
+platform type the following at your cygwin prompt:
 
 @example
   tar zxvf gnugo-3.6.tar.gz
@@ -350,6 +351,10 @@
   make
 @end example
 
+The generated executable can be reduced in size significantly by
+using the upx compression program that is available through
+Cygwin's setup program.
+
 @node VC
 @subsection Windows NT, Windows 95/98 using Visual C and project files