From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" Subject: Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:36:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <46B2D547.6050406@trolltech.com> <46B31181.5020007@trolltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Marius Storm-Olsen" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 03 13:36:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IGvSW-0004gS-1M for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:36:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760649AbXHCLgl (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:36:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760635AbXHCLgl (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:36:41 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.247]:18098 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759908AbXHCLgk (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:36:40 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d31so153881and for ; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:36:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fxZNtWPfnLbYvfdEWK8YPkRZAogM4i50sptzI2KZWBVFOr4mdIJpvPJDI4NEpIjN4+0VfCA9DG5F4mH4Xe6HJxped0QToX1g+n8Krzp18qnqx487BrHpwwr4A1Rf11P+JA5k5wLRm1O4AewZ858MNamUo9I1Dl5cZlgVbtwSaq8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EeKprzl0Fo6LwttSuyiueVl6mMIwcfsgKr8dg7hocXFe2quI53UrC0rEyKKMq7w63em/FkyMOCrYXBEJ7oHRnV+vhwqeZl199YviVqJNNkjHV6UN8oryyWr0CxUAoRANg7xAShqT4u3/vzqrpQJa3VGa82OUQxOTr55lx6Zz7yc= Received: by 10.100.168.13 with SMTP id q13mr1652984ane.1186140999884; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:36:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.198.17 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 04:36:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46B31181.5020007@trolltech.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 8/3/07, Marius Storm-Olsen 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