From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Cygwin MSVC patches Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:08:41 +0100 Message-ID: <4AEFD6F9.5000305@viscovery.net> References: <4AE7410D.3030109@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> <4AE7EB06.10305@viscovery.net> <4AE8C3FD.2020300@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , GIT Mailing-list , mstormo@gmail.com To: Ramsay Jones X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 03 08:08:51 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N5DVa-00017w-RA for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:08:51 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753248AbZKCHIk (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2009 02:08:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753201AbZKCHIj (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2009 02:08:39 -0500 Received: from lilzmailmt02.liwest.at ([212.33.55.12]:25183 "EHLO lilzmailso01.liwest.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751010AbZKCHIj (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2009 02:08:39 -0500 Received: from cpe228-254.liwest.at ([81.10.228.254] helo=linz.eudaptics.com) by lilzmailso01.liwest.at with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N5DVQ-0005m9-9e; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:08:40 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (J6T.linz.viscovery [192.168.1.95]) by linz.eudaptics.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9036D9; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:08:40 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: <4AE8C3FD.2020300@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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