From 6864e3b895e68e6fcdd2bfaf11763e67c664ae63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Lange Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:38:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about make build not working on windows --- docs/_install-and-build/Installing-Geth.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/_install-and-build/Installing-Geth.md b/docs/_install-and-build/Installing-Geth.md index 9e4da8516e..1d15030971 100644 --- a/docs/_install-and-build/Installing-Geth.md +++ b/docs/_install-and-build/Installing-Geth.md @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ You can now run `build/bin/geth` to start your node. ### Building without a Go workflow -If you do not want to set up Go workspaces on your machine, only build `geth` and forget about the build process, you can clone our repository directly into a folder of your choosing and invoke `make`, which configures everything for a temporary build and cleans up afterwards: +If you do not want to set up Go workspaces on your machine, only build `geth` and forget about the build process, you can clone our repository directly into a folder of your choosing and invoke `make`, which configures everything for a temporary build and cleans up afterwards. Note that this method of building only works on UNIX-like operating systems. ```shell git clone https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum.git @@ -200,4 +200,4 @@ cd go-ethereum make geth ``` -This creates a `geth` (or `geth.exe` on Windows) executable file in the `go-ethereum/build/bin` folder that you can move wherever you want to run from. The binary is standalone and doesn't require any additional files. +This creates a `geth` executable file in the `go-ethereum/build/bin` folder that you can move wherever you want to run from. The binary is standalone and doesn't require any additional files.