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

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

On 8/3/07, Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> wrote:
> >> Great effort Johannes! The package work perfectly on XP. I'm
> >> trying to get it to work under Wine, but it (Wine) is not playing
> >>  nice with me at the moment. (The whole system barfs of "Access
> >> Denied" and other things. Grrr)
> >
> > Even if it installs ok under Wine, git may not work properly
> > because a bug in dup2() not duplicating to 0-2 and some others that
> > I think only affect tests. So get XP if you can or prepare to fix
> > Wine along the way.
>
> Yeah, I wasn't going to use it under Wine actually. Just wanted to see
> if I could get it building there, to ease automated packaging later.
> However, I've given up on it, due to a perl issue, which might be
> caused by the issue you describe.

You could cross-compile it. You'll need a cross toolchain, zlib stuff
and a good config.mak (I can send you one if you have trouble with
it).
-- 
Duy