Move the Cygwin location code into a function

Add a note to README about the need for Cygwin
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Robin Dunn
2016-03-01 21:44:16 -08:00
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@@ -55,12 +55,18 @@ decoding errors. For example::
chcp 1252
python build.py <build commands>...
In addition, some tasks within the build currently expect to be able to use
Cygwin on Windows (https://www.cygwin.com/) to do its work. If you have
Cygwin installed in one of the default locations (c:\cygwin or c:\cygwin64)
then all is well. If you have it installed somewhere else then you can set
CYGWIN_BASE in the environment and the build tool will use that for the base
dir.
If you just want to do a standard setuptools-style build using setup.py and
are using a full source tarball, then you can stop reading at this point. If
you want to build from a source repository checkout, or need to make changes
and/or to regenerate some of the generated source files, then please continue
reading.
On the other hand, if you just want to do a standard setuptools-style build
using setup.py and are using a full source tarball, then you can stop reading
at this point. If you want to build from a source repository checkout, or
need to make changes and/or to regenerate some of the generated source files,
then please continue reading.
Building wxWidgets