Re: Windows support

["Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On 7/26/07, Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> > On 7/26/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >> Thank you for working on this!
> >>
> >> However, I am not completely convinced that having a builtin shell is all
> >> that useful.  I for one would like to have MinGW busybox _separate_ from
> >> git...
> >
> > I make MinGW busybox part of git for some reasons:
> >
> > - Making a full MinGW busybox would take lots of time. I don't need
> > busybox for Windows. What I need is a shell and enough POSIX utilities
> > to run git shell scripts without any dependencies. Windows users
> > (including myself when I have to use Windows) hate dependencies.
> > - I don't want MinGW busybox to be used outside of git (if it is
> > installed separated from git), there are cygwin and msys already. I
> > don't want to compete them. And I don't like conflicts (not sure
> > though) because you have multiple UNIX emulations on the same system.
> (..snip..)
>
> Hi Duy,
>
> *drool*
> This was an extremely good idea! Thank you so much for working on it!
> I'll be sure to play around with it, and see if there's any way I can
> help out. Guess I finally have to get that MinGW compile environment set
> up then :-)
>
> Btw, are you compiling with MinGW on Windows, or cross-compiling on Linux?

I cross-compile all the time (and test it on Windows when I have one,
on the buggy Wine when not). I'd absolutely appreciate bug reports
regarding building it on Windows ;-)
-- 
Duy