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

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

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[CC'd to git ML so that if anyone needs it again, google might help]

On 8/3/07, Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> wrote:
> >>> 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).
>
> I would definitely be interested in your config.mak file!

Rename the attached file config.mak and you can "make" right away
without running configure. You still need to set CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to
specify location of zlib.h and libz.a though.

> Thanks!
>
> --
> .marius
>
>
>


-- 
Duy

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# git Makefile configuration, included in main Makefile
# config.mak.autogen.  Generated from config.mak.in config.mak.append by configure.

CC = mingw32-gcc
CFLAGS = -g -O2
AR = mingw32-ar
TAR = tar
#INSTALL = @INSTALL@		# needs install-sh or install.sh in sources
TCLTK_PATH = wish

prefix = /usr/local
exec_prefix = ${prefix}
bindir = ${exec_prefix}/bin
#gitexecdir = ${exec_prefix}/libexec/git-core/
datarootdir = ${prefix}/share
template_dir = ${datarootdir}/git-core/templates/

mandir=${datarootdir}/man

srcdir = .


export exec_prefix mandir
export srcdir VPATH

NO_MMAP=YesPlease
NO_PREAD=YesPlease
NO_OPENSSL=YesPlease
NO_CURL=YesPlease
NO_SYMLINK_HEAD=YesPlease
NO_IPV6=YesPlease
NO_ETC_PASSWD=YesPlease
NO_SETENV=YesPlease
NO_UNSETENV=YesPlease
NO_STRCASESTR=YesPlease
NO_STRLCPY=YesPlease
NO_ICONV=YesPlease
NO_C99_FORMAT = YesPlease
NO_STRTOUMAX = YesPlease
NO_SYMLINKS=YesPlease
NO_SVN_TESTS=YesPlease

COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_ETC_PASSWD -DNO_ST_BLOCKS -DSTRIP_EXTENSION=\".exe\" -I compat
COMPAT_OBJS += compat/mingw.o compat/fnmatch.o compat/regex.o
EXTLIBS += -lws2_32
X = .exe
NOEXECTEMPL = .noexec
template_dir = ../share/git-core/templates/
ETC_GITCONFIG = ../etc/gitconfig
SCRIPT_SH += cpio.sh
NEEDS_SSL_WITH_CRYPTO=
NO_OPENSSL=YesPlease
NO_CURL=YesPlease
NO_EXPAT=YesPlease
NEEDS_LIBICONV=
NEEDS_SOCKET=
SHELL_PATH=/bin/sh
NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER=
NO_D_INO_IN_DIRENT=
NO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT=YesPlease
NO_SOCKADDR_STORAGE=
NO_IPV6=YesPlease
NO_C99_FORMAT=YesPlease
NO_STRCASESTR=YesPlease
NO_STRLCPY=YesPlease
NO_SETENV=YesPlease
NO_ICONV=YesPlease

# config.mak.append.  Generated by configure.