From 4ea38e2319482b316a474d6fc82876e6fdcd7911 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Lo=C3=AFc=20Hoguin?= <essen@ninenines.eu>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:35:48 +0100
Subject: Fix compilation of NIFs on Windows

Thanks to two users of the ninenines/esdl2 project,
a correct way to build NIFs on Windows has been found.

At the moment we require a specific compiler (MingW's
gcc). Maybe we can change this in the future and allow
Visual Studio and others.

Some small changes have been made to the documentation,
and the meaning of one configuration variable has changed
to not include the extension (which is decided automatically
by Erlang.mk; and configurable separately).

Enjoy!
---
 doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc')

diff --git a/doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc b/doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc
index f03dafa..a271e2d 100644
--- a/doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc
@@ -95,6 +95,13 @@ to find all packages related to GCC:
 [source,bash]
 $ pacman -Ss gcc
 
+If you are going to compile C/C++ code, you will need to
+install this package, as Erlang.mk cannot use the normal
+"gcc" package:
+
+[source,bash]
+$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
+
 You can also run commands under the MSYS2 environment from
 the Windows command line or batch files. This command will
 install GNU Make and Git:
-- 
cgit v1.2.3

