Re: [msysGit] Re: Compiling on Windows

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Oct 20, 2011, 07:06 UTC
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From: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 12:17 AM

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> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Philip Oakley wrote:
>
>> From: "Vincent van Ravesteijn" <vfr@lyx.org>
>> > Op 18-10-2011 6:08, Andrew Ardill schreef:
>> > > Hi list, I have been searching for details on what is required to
>> > > compile on Windows, but haven't found anything conclusive. Perhaps
>> > > there is something on the wiki, but unfortunately it is down at the
>> > > moment.
>
> The quickest way to get Git for Windows compiled is to download & run
> msysGit-netinstall from http://msysgit.googlecode.com/.
>

Johannes, I've got the msysGit-netinstall, which is excellent, however it was the additional setting up of MSVC (Microsoft Visual Studio) that I was trying to get going as an IDE tool - Its a tool I have to use at work so I'm familiar with it. I know that an MSVC compilation is not perfect..., but it would allow me easier development before a proper gcc compilation.

The C:\msysgit\git\compat\vcbuild\README gave details of the extra parts to download but it wasn't clear to me where I should put them within the C:\ or C:\msysgit\ directory.

The msysGit-netinstall already includes git (C:\msysgit\git), so I wasn't sure if I should download it a second time as instructed in the README. With the improvements in msysGit-netinstall I expect that the README is slightly out of date for the case where the netinstall was used. The blog post gave an indication of _where_ the downloads were to be placed, but was otherwise very similar to the README instructions.

regards Philip