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Remove mention of Windows installer from tutorial
We don't want users to hurt themselves, since the installer has a bug in 0.1 that could possibly corrupt %PATH% Conflicts: doc/tutorial.md
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* gnu make 3.81 or later
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On Windows Rust requires [MinGW][mingw] (version 20110802 is known to
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work). It is currently recommended that windows development be done
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under the MinGW shell to ensure that the environment is configured
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correctly.
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Assuming you're on a relatively modern Linux system and have met the
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prerequisites, something along these lines should work:
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$ make && make install
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Building from source on windows requires some extra steps, please see
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the [getting started][wiki-get-started] page on the Rust wiki.
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When complete, `make install` will place the following programs into
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`/usr/local/bin`:
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The install locations can be adjusted by passing a `--prefix` argument
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to `configure`. Various other options are also supported, pass `--help`
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for more information on them.
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for more information on them.
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[wiki-get-started]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-getting-started
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[tarball]: http://dl.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.1.tar.gz
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[mingw]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-inst/mingw-get-inst-20110802/mingw-get-inst-20110802.exe/download
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## Compiling your first program
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