From 79206c92a759bb3a68098bb48ef9b1c0977d160d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amber Brown Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 21:15:18 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] modern windows terminal + powershell is, (un?)fortunately superior to cygwin's, so cut this for simplification --- docs/dev/building/Compile.rst | 23 ----------------------- 1 file changed, 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/dev/building/Compile.rst b/docs/dev/building/Compile.rst index b2f7fd7ed..3b54b38f0 100644 --- a/docs/dev/building/Compile.rst +++ b/docs/dev/building/Compile.rst @@ -187,29 +187,6 @@ Modern Windows terminal emulators such as `Cmder `_ or `Windows Terminal `_ provide a better experience by providing more scrollback and larger window sizes. -**Note for Cygwin/msysgit users**: It is also possible to compile DFHack from a -Bash command line. This has three potential benefits: - -* When you've installed Git and are using its Bash, but haven't added Git to your path: - - * You can load Git's Bash and as long as it can access Perl and CMake, you can - use it for compile without adding Git to your system path. - -* When you've installed Cygwin and its SSH server: - - * You can now SSH in to your Windows install and compile from a remote terminal; - very useful if your Windows installation is a local VM on a \*nix host OS. - -* In general: you can use Bash as your compilation terminal, meaning you have a decent - sized window, scrollback, etc. - - * Whether you're accessing it locally as with Git's Bash, or remotely through - Cygwin's SSH server, this is far superior to using ``cmd.exe``. - -You don't need to do anything special to compile from Bash. As long as your PATHs -are set up correctly, you can run the same generate- and build/install/package- bat -files as detailed above. - .. _compile-macos: macOS