tutorial: Remove mention of windows installer

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Brian Anderson 2012-01-23 13:52:31 -08:00
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@ -62,24 +62,9 @@ they don't contain references to things that aren't actually defined.
## Installation
On win32, we make an executable [installer][] available. On other
platforms you need to build from a [tarball][].
If you're on windows, download and run the installer. It should install
a self-contained set of tools and libraries to `C:\Program Files\Rust`,
and add `C:\Program Files\Rust\bin` to your `PATH` environment variable.
You should then be able to run the rust compiler as `rustc` directly
from the command line.
On Windows Rust additionally requires [MinGW][mingw] (version
20110802 is known to work). It is currently recommended that windows
development be done under the MinGW shell to ensure that the
environment is configured correctly.
We hope to be distributing binary packages for various other operating
systems at some point in the future, but at the moment only windows
binary installers are being made. Other operating systems must build
from "source".
The Rust compiler currently must be built from a [tarball][]. We hope
to be distributing binary packages for various operating systems in
the future.
***Note:*** The Rust compiler is slightly unusual in that it is written
in Rust and therefore must be built by a precompiled "snapshot" version
@ -106,6 +91,11 @@ packages:
* gnu make 3.81 or later
* curl
On Windows Rust requires [MinGW][mingw] (version 20110802 is known to
work). It is currently recommended that windows development be done
under the MinGW shell to ensure that the environment is configured
correctly.
Assuming you're on a relatively modern Linux system and have met the
prerequisites, something along these lines should work:
@ -132,7 +122,6 @@ The install locations can be adjusted by passing a `--prefix` argument
to `configure`. Various other options are also supported, pass `--help`
for more information on them.
[installer]: http://dl.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.1-install.exe
[tarball]: http://dl.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.1.tar.gz
[mingw]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-inst/mingw-get-inst-20110802/mingw-get-inst-20110802.exe/download