diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index 9a5f5e7e1..2422e3983 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -133,12 +133,20 @@ or uncompressed. ## MinGW -We don't support MinGW compiler. If you see that the detected C++ -compiler by cmake is `C:\MinGW\bin\c++.exe` or something similar, you -have to get rid of MinGW path (`C:\MinGW\bin`) from the `PATH` -environment variable and run cmake again from scratch so the Visual -Studio C++ compiler (`cl.exe`) is used instead. More information in -[issue #2449](https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/issues/2449) +We don't support MinGW compiler and it might bring some problems into +the compilation process. If you see that the detected C++ compiler by +cmake is `C:\MinGW\bin\c++.exe` or something similar, you have to get +rid of MinGW path (`C:\MinGW\bin`) from the `PATH` environment +variable and run cmake again from scratch, so the Visual Studio C++ +compiler (`cl.exe`) is used instead. + +You can define the `CMAKE_IGNORE_PATH` variable when running cmake for +the first time in case that you don't know or don't want to modify the +`PATH` variable, e.g.: + + cmake -DCMAKE_IGNORE_PATH=C:\MinGW\bin ... + +More information in [issue #2449](https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/issues/2449) ## macOS details