Specify package dependency on gcc in Readme #175
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Just a personal note. MinGW requires a bit of knowlege and effort to get compiler running on windows. Most GO users would just want your package on windows with minimal effort. My personal experience on windows 7 x64 - TDM64-GCC pre-installation is a best choice to have your package up and running. Just download and click. Than go get runs with no issues! Let me know if you'd prefer my changes as a pull request. |
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Could you please send me a pull-request? |
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People with different level of knowlege are trying to use it. Please, make README a little more friendly. Now, Installation section of README.md makes illusion of the package as self contained. Please clearly specify dependency on C compiler. An extra line would help to avoid "surprises" and direct people to read FAQ. Here it how this note may look like.
Minimum requirements are Go 1.1+ with CGO enabled and GCC/MinGW C compiler. See "compile" section in FAQ.Compilation on windows deserves its own section in FAQ. Take a look at Google's sqlite3 package as an example of documenting package dependencies. Short, clear and sets users aware of an extra step.
Windows users should install mingw-w64 (http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/), TDM64-GCC (http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/), or another MinGW distribution, and make sure that gcc.exe is available from the %PATH%. MSYS is not required.Thank you for the great package!
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