From 2bc8ef164c60371d8906d61ba846a38352619ca8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Korobeynikov <asl@math.spbu.ru>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:54:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add note about msys perl needed for windows/mingw32 builds.
 Patch by John Thompson!

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@78304 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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 docs/GettingStarted.html | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/GettingStarted.html b/docs/GettingStarted.html
index cd035c1ffac..e740a89b01d 100644
--- a/docs/GettingStarted.html
+++ b/docs/GettingStarted.html
@@ -257,7 +257,8 @@ software you will need.</p>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td>MinGW/Win32</td>
-  <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a>,<a href="#pf_6">6</a>,<a href="#pf_8">8</a></sup></td>
+  <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a>,<a href="#pf_6">6</a>,
+     <a href="#pf_8">8</a>, <a href="#pf_10">10</a></sup></td>
   <td>GCC 3.4.X, binutils 2.15</td>
 </tr>
 </table>
@@ -325,6 +326,11 @@ up</a></li>
     levels greater than 0 (i.e., <i>"-O1"</i> and higher).
     Add <i>OPTIMIZE_OPTION="-O0"</i> to the build command line
     if compiling for LLVM Release or bootstrapping the LLVM toolchain.</li>
+<li><a name="pf_10">For MSYS/MinGW on Windows, be sure to install the MSYS
+    version of the perl package, and be sure it appears in your path
+    before any Windows-based versions such as Strawberry Perl and
+    ActivePerl, as these have Windows-specifics that will cause the
+    build to fail.</a></li>
 </ol>
 </div>
 
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