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Re: Compiling on Windows

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 18, 2011, 14:02 UTC
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for the replies all - I think my main issue was that the wiki
> is down and msysgit has very little use-able documentation otherwise.
> I had cloned the msysgit project, but was lost on what to do from
> there. Foolishly, I had glossed over the msysgit installers on the
> project home (I think I thought they were Git for Windows installers).
>

Yeah, the installer sets up a fully self-contained MSYS-based development environment to hack on Git for Windows.

> I have now installed everything, and am ready to hack. Perhaps the
> first port of call is adding a README to msysgit :D
Not at all a bad idea!

It'd be awesome if it even worked with the GitHub markup-stuff as well, since we moved the project there :)

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  1. Andrew ArdillOct 18, 2011
  2. Frans KlaverOct 18, 2011
  3. Andrew ArdillOct 18, 2011
  4. Erik Faye-LundOct 18, 2011
  5. Sebastian SchuberthOct 18, 2011
  6. Alexey ShumkinOct 18, 2011
  7. Vincent van RavesteijnOct 19, 2011
  8. Philip OakleyOct 19, 2011
  9. Johannes SchindelinOct 19, 2011
  10. Philip OakleyOct 20, 2011
  11. Vincent van RavesteijnOct 20, 2011
  12. Erik Faye-LundOct 21, 2011

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