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| author | David Benjamin <davidben@google.com> | 2016-06-10 13:12:20 -0400 |
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| committer | Adam Langley <agl@google.com> | 2016-06-10 17:17:09 +0000 |
| commit | f6a74c61f7455885a514e577d69670f924b6cf6f (patch) | |
| tree | d24270801280b76d06da5b367e22448c3cb31fcc /BUILDING.md | |
| parent | 171b5403ee767fa0f3aecd377867db6533c3eb8f (diff) | |
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Document compiler and assembler requirements.
The minimum version is purely based on what we've patched out of the perlasm
files. I'm assuming they're accurate.
Change-Id: I5ae176cf793512125fa78f203a1314396e8a14d7
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/8238
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
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diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md index 0e34db3..5631ded 100644 --- a/BUILDING.md +++ b/BUILDING.md @@ -27,10 +27,14 @@ * A C compiler is required. On Windows, MSVC 14 (Visual Studio 2015) or later with Platform SDK 8.1 or later are supported. Recent versions of GCC (4.8+) and Clang should work on non-Windows platforms, and maybe on Windows too. + To build the tests, you also need a C++ compiler with C++11 support. * [Go](https://golang.org/dl/) is required. If not found by CMake, the go executable may be configured explicitly by setting `GO_EXECUTABLE`. + * To build the x86 and x86\_64 assembly, your assembler must support AVX2 + instructions. If using GNU binutils, you must have 2.22 or later. + ## Building Using Ninja (note the 'N' is capitalized in the cmake invocation): |