Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git)

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Mike Pape wrote:

> On 8/3/07, Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> wrote:
> > Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
> > >> Mike Pape wrote:
> > >>> Works for me as well now.  One catch is that at work, I'm behind
> > >>> a firewall so git:// doesn't work for me.  I have a packaged
> > >>> version that adds curl and expat, enables them in the build, and
> > >>> then falls back to http:// if git:// fails in /etc/profile.  Is
> > >>> that something you'd want up on code.google.com?
> > >> Ooo, I'd like your built curl and expat libs in a zip, pretty
> > >> please! :-)
> > >>
> > >> Then we can add it to the package. The more complete MinGW port,
> > >> the better. Do you have anywhere you can put out such a zip, so I
> > >> can get ahold of it? You can mail me privately, if you'd like.
> > >
> > > I already installed curl, didn't I?
> >
> > Ah, yes, you did.
> > However, we don't use it, due to Makefile's
> >         NO_CURL=YesPlease
> > for MINGW builds.
> >
> 
> Was it in the latest version (0.2)?  I didn't see it there.  Either
> way, I had to make a couple changes to the Makefile to get it to work
> and also add expat (unless I somehow missed that too).  Marius, do you
> still want a zipped copy or do you have it already?

Okay, I am really close to initialising the repository on

	http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw/msysgit.git

now.

Everybody interested in contributing, please register as a user on 
repo.or.cz and mail me your user name.

Ciao,
Dscho