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Revision: 59
          http://pure-lang.svn.sourceforge.net/pure-lang/?rev=59&view=rev
Author:   agraef
Date:     2008-05-05 02:40:50 -0700 (Mon, 05 May 2008)

Log Message:
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Cosmetic changes, add notes about MS Windows.

Modified Paths:
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    pure/trunk/INSTALL

Modified: pure/trunk/INSTALL
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--- pure/trunk/INSTALL	2008-05-05 09:20:02 UTC (rev 58)
+++ pure/trunk/INSTALL	2008-05-05 09:40:50 UTC (rev 59)
@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@
 platforms.
 
 Pure is known to work on Linux and Mac OSX, but should compile (with the usual
-amount of tweaking) on all UNIX/POSIX-based platforms. Version 4.x of the GNU
-C++ compiler is known to work (it should be available almost everywhere),
-earlier versions probably need some work. Other ANSI/ISO compatible C/C++
-compilers will probably work as well after you fiddled with the compilation
-options, but this has not been tested. Also note that the Makefile pretty much
-requires GNU make right now, so you should make sure that you have that
-installed before trying to compile Pure.
+amount of tweaking) on all UNIX/POSIX-based platforms. We recommend using
+version 4.x of the GNU C++ compiler; it should be available almost everywhere.
+Other ANSI/ISO compatible C/C++ compilers will probably work as well (after
+some fiddling with the compilation options and the sources maybe), but this
+has not been tested. Also note that the Makefile pretty much requires GNU make
+right now, so you should make sure that you have that installed before trying
+to compile Pure.
 
 
 BASIC INSTALLATION
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 $ make build=release
 $ sudo make install
 
-Here, x.y denotes the current Pure version number (0.1 at the time of this
+Here, x.y denotes the current Pure version number (0.2 at the time of this
 writing). If you want to install the debugging-enabled version, run just
 'make' instead of 'make build=release'.
 
@@ -226,7 +226,17 @@
 but they are harmless and can be ignored. These warnings should also go away
 once Apple upgrades its SDK to a newer gcc version.
 
+MS WINDOWS
+-- -------
 
+Nobody has reported a successful port to this platform yet, but it should be
+rather straightforward (albeit arduous) to do this with either Cygwin
+(http://www.cygwin.com/) or Mingw (http://www.mingw.org/), once you have all
+the necessary dependencies and the Windows version of LLVM (available at
+http://llvm.org) installed. So *you* can still be the hero who first got Pure
+up and running on Windows; if you do, please let us know! :)
+
+
 May 2008
 Albert Graef <Dr.Graef at t-online.de>
 Eddie Rucker <erucker at bmc.edu>


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