Commit 9cf9ac6e authored by Simon Mazur's avatar Simon Mazur
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Mention mingw in README

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@@ -29,7 +29,15 @@ rust-openssl to a separate installation.

### Windows

Install OpenSSL from [here][1]. Cargo will not be able to find OpenSSL if it's
On Windows, consider building with [mingw-w64](http://mingw-w64.org/).
Build script will try to find mingw in `PATH` environment variable to provide
Cargo with location where openssl libs from mingw-w64 package may be found.
If you followed guide [Building on Windows](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust#building-on-windows)
from rust repo, then you should have [MSYS2](http://msys2.github.io/) with
`mingw-w64-openssl` installed as part of `mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain`
(or `mingw-w64-i686-toolchain`) package.

Alternatively, install OpenSSL from [here][1]. Cargo will not be able to find OpenSSL if it's
installed to the default location. You can either copy the `include/openssl`
directory, `libssl32.dll`, and `libeay32.dll` to locations that Cargo can find
or pass the location to Cargo via environment variables: