Merge pull request #650 from mitchellh/readme-gox

readme: add a note about the gox dependency for compiling
pull/666/head
Mitchell Hashimoto 13 years ago
commit 4c16865aaa

@ -77,6 +77,13 @@ For some additional dependencies, Go needs [Mercurial](http://mercurial.selenic.
and [Bazaar](http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/) to be installed.
Packer itself doesn't require these, but a dependency of a dependency does.
You'll also need [`gox`](https://github.com/mitchellh/packer)
to compile packer. You can install that with:
```
$ go get -u github.com/mitchellh/gox
```
Next, clone this repository into `$GOPATH/src/github.com/mitchellh/packer` and
then just type `make`. In a few moments, you'll have a working `packer` executable:

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