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| author | Kegsay <kegsay@gmail.com> | 2014-12-18 14:16:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Kegsay <kegsay@gmail.com> | 2014-12-18 14:16:31 +0000 |
| commit | f8cc8a66b406d6c36d8a06b722738ea19b3e967e (patch) | |
| tree | d3bffeccebec161e7d6894e354d1f307a157689f /README.rst | |
| parent | Merge branch 'release-v0.6.0' into develop (diff) | |
| download | synapse-f8cc8a66b406d6c36d8a06b722738ea19b3e967e.tar.xz | |
Update README.rst
Add windows (cygwin) install instructions.
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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 8459bcac2e..7497f1584b 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -133,6 +133,28 @@ failing, e.g.:: On OSX, if you encounter clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd' you will need to export CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments. +Windows Install +--------------- +Synapse can be installed on Cygwin. It requires the following Cygwin packages: + + - gcc + - git + - libffi-devel + - openssl (and openssl-devel, python-openssl) + - python + - python-setuptools + +Troubleshooting: + +- You may need to upgrade ``setuptools`` to get this to work correctly: + ``pip install setuptools --upgrade``. +- You may encounter errors indicating that ``ffi.h`` is missing, even with + ``libffi-devel`` installed. If you do, copy the ``.h`` files: + ``cp /usr/lib/libffi-3.0.13/include/*.h /usr/include`` +- You may need to install libsodium from source in order to install PyNacl. If + you do, you may need to create a symlink to ``libsodium.a`` so ``ld`` can find + it: ``ln -s /usr/local/lib/libsodium.a /usr/lib/libsodium.a`` + Running Your Homeserver ======================= |