From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
GIT Mailing-list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
mstormo@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Cygwin MSVC patches
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:08:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEFD6F9.5000305@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE8C3FD.2020300@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Ramsay Jones schrieb:
> Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> Ramsay Jones schrieb:
>>> With these patches, the msvc build on cygwin seems to be working fine.
>> What is "the msvc build on cygwin"?
>
> The same as the msvc build on msys-MinGW, but replace msys-MinGW
> with Cygwin ;-)
>
>> Is it "git built with msvc, then run in cygwin"?
>
> Yes, but... *in theory* the cygwin msvc-built binaries could be transferred
> to an msys system and they should work (exactly as the msvc build on msys).
> Since I don't have an msys installation, I can't test that... so I won't
> guarantee it will work!
>
> Any git needs a (bash-like) shell, perl, Tcl/Tk, ... etc.
Just to check I understand correctly: you are running "make MSVC=1" on
cygwin, and then you are using the resulting binaries with the POSIX tools
from cygwin.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-03 7:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-27 18:50 [PATCH 0/4] Cygwin MSVC patches Ramsay Jones
2009-10-28 6:56 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-10-28 22:21 ` Ramsay Jones
2009-11-03 7:08 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2009-11-04 19:03 ` Ramsay Jones
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