Re: MinGW build environment for Git

From: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
Date: Aug 1, 2007, 05:15 UTC
Message-ID: <46B016FC.4050005@trolltech.com>
In-Reply-To: <a1bbc6950707291614w392bf3a9t5d0d9e50bfcb0f36@mail.gmail.com>

Dmitry Kakurin said the following on 30.07.2007 01:14:

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> I want to be able to build MinGW port of Git on Windows. I've tried
> to follow steps in README.MinGW to setup this environment myself
> (install MinGW, MSys, ZLib etc.) but after wasting a lot of time
> with no result I give up. So, could somebody please just pkzip
> their environment (everything required) and share the zip file with
> me (privately or publicly)? I also think that an even better idea
> is to create a new Git repository with MinGW build environment.
> This will make contributing to MinGW port of Git MUCH easier.

Hi Dmitry,

Aaron has done this, and you can find the link on his blog, here:
     http://www.ekips.org/cgi-bin/aaron.cgi/2007/02/27

The archive's compressed with 7zip, so you'll need that to decompress it. (http://www.7-zip.org/)

Direct link to the archive:
     http://inkscape.modevia.com/git/mingw4git.7z

Good luck!

-- 
.marius