[nasm:nasm-2.16.xx] Mkfiles/README: recommend MSYS2 on Windows

nasm-bot for H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Apr 17 09:51:06 PDT 2024


Commit-ID:  e6999567583ad91670abfc60739760e735805dd4
Gitweb:     http://repo.or.cz/w/nasm.git?a=commitdiff;h=e6999567583ad91670abfc60739760e735805dd4
Author:     H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 09:41:47 -0700
Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
CommitDate: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 09:41:47 -0700

Mkfiles/README: recommend MSYS2 on Windows

Even Microsoft seems to recommend MSYS2 for autoconf compatibility
now.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>


---
 Mkfiles/README | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Mkfiles/README b/Mkfiles/README
index 42d879fd..c5b87aaa 100644
--- a/Mkfiles/README
+++ b/Mkfiles/README
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ The Makefiles are:
 
   Filename      Target		Compiler	Tested with
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  msvc.mak	Win32		MS Visual C++	Visual Visual Studio 2013-2017
+  msvc.mak	Win32		MS Visual C++	Visual Visual Studio 2013-2022
 
 	For building on a Win32 host using Microsoft Visual C++.
 
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ The Makefiles are:
 
 		nmake /f Mkfiles\msvc.mak everything nsis
 
+	NOTE: the preferred way to build NASM on Windows is to use
+	the standard configure script under the MSYS2 environment.
+	See http://www.msys2.org/.
+
+
   Filename      Target		Compiler	Tested with
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
   openwcom.mak	DOS,Win32,OS/2	OpenWatcom C	OpenWatcom 1.7 (Win32)


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