1. Make sure you have installed the dependencies:
* `g++` 4.7 or `clang++` 3.x
- * `python` 2.6 or later (but not 3.x)
+ * `python` 2.7 or later (but not 3.x)
* GNU `make` 3.81 or later
* `curl`
* `git`
### Building on Windows
+There are two prominent ABIs in use on Windows: the native (MSVC) ABI used by
+Visual Studio, and the GNU ABI used by the GCC toolchain. Which version of Rust
+you need depends largely on what C/C++ libraries you want to interoperate with:
+for interop with software produced by Visual Studio use the MSVC build of Rust;
+for interop with GNU software built using the MinGW/MSYS2 toolchain use the GNU
+build.
+
+
+#### MinGW
+
[MSYS2](http://msys2.github.io/) can be used to easily build Rust on Windows:
1. Grab the latest MSYS2 installer and go through the installer.
```sh
# Update package mirrors (may be needed if you have a fresh install of MSYS2)
$ pacman -Sy pacman-mirrors
+ ```
- # Choose one based on platform:
- # *** see the note below ***
- $ pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain
- $ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
+Download [MinGW from
+here](http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php/download/mingw-builds), and choose the
+`threads=win32,exceptions=dwarf/seh` flavor when installing. After installing,
+add its `bin` directory to your `PATH`. This is due to #28260, in the future,
+installing from pacman should be just fine.
+ ```
# Make git available in MSYS2 (if not already available on path)
$ pacman -S git
$ ./configure
$ make && make install
```
-> ***Note:*** gcc versions >= 5 currently have issues building LLVM on Windows
-> resulting in a segmentation fault when building Rust. In order to avoid this
-> it may be necessary to obtain an earlier version of gcc such as 4.9.x.
-> Msys's `pacman` will install the latest version, so for the time being it is
-> recommended to skip gcc toolchain installation step above and use [Mingw-Builds]
-> project's installer instead. Be sure to add gcc `bin` directory to the path
-> before running `configure`.
-> For more information on this see issue #28260.
-
-[Mingw-Builds]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/
+
+#### MSVC
+
+MSVC builds of Rust additionally require an installation of Visual Studio 2013
+(or later) so `rustc` can use its linker. Make sure to check the “C++ tools”
+option. In addition, `cmake` needs to be installed to build LLVM.
+
+With these dependencies installed, the build takes two steps:
+
+```sh
+$ ./configure
+$ make && make install
+```
## Building Documentation