Windows: Add a note about building a Git repository snapshot

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Lasse Collin 2010-07-27 20:47:12 +03:00
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@ -129,3 +129,12 @@ Building XZ Utils
Be patient. Running configure and other scripts used by the build Be patient. Running configure and other scripts used by the build
system is (very) slow under Windows. system is (very) slow under Windows.
Using a snapshot from the Git repository
To use a snapshot, the build system files need to be generated with
autogen.sh or "autoreconf -fi" before trying to build using the the
above build instructions. You can install the relevant extra packages
from MinGW or use Cygwin or use e.g. a GNU/Linux system to create a
source package with the required build system files.