From ace2a031b5c1580ea9a69f116e6a8c9393860267 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jay Berkenbilt Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:47:17 +0000 Subject: prepare 2.1.rc1 for release git-svn-id: svn+q:///qpdf/trunk@901 71b93d88-0707-0410-a8cf-f5a4172ac649 --- README-what-to-download.txt | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README-what-to-download.txt (limited to 'README-what-to-download.txt') diff --git a/README-what-to-download.txt b/README-what-to-download.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7e2ce8c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/README-what-to-download.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +To build from source for Linux or other UNIX/UNIX-like systems, it is +generally sufficient to download just the source qpdf-.tar.gz +file. + +For Windows, there are several additional files that you might want to +download. + + * qpdf--bin-mingw.zip + + If you just want to use the qpdf commandline program or use the + qpdf DLL's C-language interface, you can download this file. You + can also download this version if you are using MINGW's gcc 4.4 and + want to program using the C++ interface. + + * qpdf--bin-msvc.zip + + If you want to program using qpdf's C++ interface and you are using + Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2008 (VC9), you can download this file. + + * qpdf-external-libs-bin.zip + + If you want to build qpdf for Windows yourself with either MINGW's + gcc 4.4 or VC9, you can download this file and extract it inside + the qpdf source distribution. Please refer to README.windows in + the qpdf source distribution for additional details. + + * qpdf-external-libs-src.zip + + If you want to build the external libraries on your own (for + Windows or anything else), you can download this archive. In + addition to including unmodified distributions of pcre and zlib, it + includes a README file and some scripts to help you build them for + Windows. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf