Re: MinGW port - initial work uploaded

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 23, 2007, 15:52 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701231650560.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0701230745g4b18747ep73d37674a969c1aa@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

> I tried to run installers under Wine: nothing worked until the 
> not-to-be-mentioned parts (ok, the whole "Windows" and "Program Files"  
> directories from an existing installation) were provided. I didn't tried 
> cygwin, though.

Since when did you not check? According to Wine's git commit messages (yeah!) they worked really hard to get installers going.

> > Has anybody tried anything like that?
> 
> Why would anyone want to try anything like that?

Curiosity.

Ciao, Dscho

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