From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Aaron Gray" Subject: Re: GIT on MinGW problem Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 22:37:18 +0100 Message-ID: <075401c79f14$deff63f0$0200a8c0@AMD2500> References: <1dbc01c79432$b4400a80$0200a8c0@AMD2500> <464534EE.30904@xs4all.nl> <4656A304.AF39A0B6@eudaptics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: , "Johannes Sixt" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 25 23:37:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HrhTv-0005hE-AB for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 23:37:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761766AbXEYVhu (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 17:37:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761928AbXEYVhu (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 17:37:50 -0400 Received: from lon1-mail-1.visp.demon.net ([193.195.70.4]:19223 "ehlo lon1-mail-1.visp.demon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762506AbXEYVhs (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 17:37:48 -0400 Received: from mwgray.force9.co.uk (EHLO AMD2500) ([212.159.110.144]) by lon1-mail-1.visp.demon.net (MOS 3.7.5a-GA FastPath) with ESMTP id FGJ94057 (AUTH angray); Fri, 25 May 2007 22:37:46 +0100 (BST) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: >> >> Aaron Gray escreveu: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I have installed the git-1.5.1-1.mingw.exe from >> > http://lilypond.org/git/binaries/mingw/. >> > >> > On typing 'git' I get a message box saying :- >> > >> > The procedure entry point libiconv could not be located in the >> > dynamic link library libiconv-2.dll. >> > >> > I cannot seem to find libiconv-2.dll anywhere either. >> >> This should be fixed in >> >> http://lilypond.org/git/binaries/mingw/git-1.5.1-2.mingw.exe >> >> it should also set $PATH. > > I gave this some more testing and it turns out to be a well working > toolset. Thank you very much! > > There were still some issues remaining. These are the ones that should > be fixable easily: > > * git version reports just: > > git version -dirty > > Since git-gui parses the output of git version, but does not expect it > to be of this format, and fails with an error message that it cannot > parse the version. > > * git without an correct git subcommand should list 20 or so commands, > but it doesn't. The list is just empty. > > * I personally think that the files should go into > > $PROGRAMFILES/Git/{bin,share,lib} > instead of > $PROGRAMFILES/Git/usr/{bin,share,lib} > > The more difficult to solve problems are: > > * git-gui and gitk don't work out of the box because they have the path > to wish hardcoded. They can't be started from CMD at all. I have written > wrappers gitk.cmd and git-gui.cmd with these 2 lines: > > @echo off > start wish84 D:/MSYS/1.0/git/bin/gitk %* > > But as you can see, the path is still hard-coded (but it is good enough > for me for the moment). > > * perl scripts like git-remote contain a hard-coded path to the > installation directory and don't work for this reason. Are git init and git clone working for you ? Aaron