Fix to build SharedMutexTest on aarch64

[folly.git] / README.md

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@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Folly is published on Github at https://github.com/facebook/folly
 
 #### Dependencies
 
-folly requires gcc 4.8+ and a version of boost compiled with C++11 support.
+folly requires gcc 4.9+ and a version of boost compiled with C++14 support.
 
 Please download googletest from
 https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-1.8.0.tar.gz and unpack it into the
@@ -83,6 +83,19 @@ folly/test subdirectory as `gtest`:
      rm -f release-1.8.0.tar.gz && \
      mv googletest-release-1.8.0 gtest)
 
+#### Linking non-default boost libraries
+
+If you have boost installed in a non-default location, you need to be sure that
+the linker and configure scripts know where to find boost.  This means making
+sure that the `LIBRARY_PATH` environment variable contains `<BOOST_ROOT>/lib`,
+as well as including the path explicitly when running
+`./configure`:
+
+```
+export LIBRARY_PATH=$BOOST_ROOT/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH
+./configure --with-boost=$BOOST_ROOT/lib
+```
+
 #### Ubuntu 12.04
 
 This release is old, requiring many upgrades. However, since Travis CI runs
@@ -137,7 +150,7 @@ sudo apt-get install \
 
 The above packages are sufficient for Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 14.04.
 
-In the folly directory, run
+In the folly directory, run:
 ```
   autoreconf -ivf
   ./configure
@@ -146,6 +159,10 @@ In the folly directory, run
   sudo make install
 ```
 
+#### Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
+The packages listed above for 13.10 and 14.04 are sufficient for installation,
+and the build commands remain the same.
+
 #### OS X (Homebrew)
 
 folly is available as a Formula and releases may be built via `brew install folly`.
@@ -199,6 +216,12 @@ Download and install folly with the parameters listed below:
   sudo make install
 ```
 
+#### Windows (Vcpkg)
+
+folly is available in [Vcpkg](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg#vcpkg) and releases may be built via `vcpkg install folly:x64-windows`.
+
+You may also use `vcpkg install folly:x64-windows --head` to build against `master`.
+
 #### Other Linux distributions
 
 - double-conversion (https://github.com/google/double-conversion)