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Install docs misleading for Windows #4397

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tasmanskies opened this issue Aug 14, 2023 · 1 comment

tasmanskies commented Aug 14, 2023

https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/blob/v3.1.0/INSTALL.md says for Windows go to https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/WindowsInstallation
https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/WindowsInstallation says Windows binaries are available at http://mapnik.org/pages/downloads.html
http://mapnik.org/pages/downloads.html only has source build info, no Windows installer binary to download

Instructions for windows installation need to be fixed up, at the moment it is very misleading and frustrating

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tasmanskies commented Aug 14, 2023

https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/blob/v3.1.0/INSTALL.md should not have:
NOTE: the above will not work on windows, rather see https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/WindowsInstallation
...buried halfway down the page before continuing with other non-windows build/installation stuff... that should be at the top

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