From 7ec93aec03935af41281ddb15e2f58aae3eb566e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Benten Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 12:32:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Include GCC Hint for Windows (#442) GCC is required for building our repo. On Windows GCC is not available by default and needs to be added in order to build. --- README.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 918310774..cabd945e2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Download and install the latest release of Go, at least Go 1.11: https://golang.org/ You will also need Git. (`brew install git`, `apt-get install git`, etc). +If you're building on Windows, you also need to install and have gcc setup correctly (easiest way via mingw64). Install git and golang. We support Linux, Mac, and Windows operating systems. Other operating systems supported by Go are probably not much