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INSTALL.Windows.md: Mention the easy way to get into bash.
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Just typing 'bash' from MSVC developers command prompt _can_ cause
MSYS to use the Windows version of 'sort' instead of the GNU sort.

Reported-by: Hemanth Kumar Mantri <mantri@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Eitan Eliahu <eliahue@vmware.com>
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Expand Up @@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ Gur Stavi gstavi@mrv.com
Hari Sasank Bhamidipalli hbhamidi@cisco.com
Hassan Khan hassan.khan@seecs.edu.pk
Hector Oron hector.oron@gmail.com
Hemanth Kumar Mantri mantri@nutanix.com
Henrik Amren henrik@nicira.com
Hiroshi Tanaka htanaka@nicira.com
Hiroshi Miyata miyahiro.dazu@gmail.com
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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions INSTALL.Windows.md
Expand Up @@ -35,11 +35,13 @@ install Windows Driver Kit (WDK) 8.1 Update.
It is important to get the Visual Studio related environment variables and to
have the $PATH inside the bash to point to the proper compiler and linker. One
easy way to achieve this is to get into the "Developer Command prompt for visual
studio" and through it enter into the bash shell available from msys.
studio" and through it enter into the bash shell available from msys by typing
'bash --login'.

If after the above step, a 'which link' inside MSYS's bash says,
"/bin/link.exe", rename /bin/link.exe to something else so that the
Visual studio's linker is used.
Visual studio's linker is used. You should also see a 'which sort' report
"/bin/sort.exe".

* For pthread support, install the library, dll and includes of pthreads-win32
project from
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