Re: GIT on MinGW problem

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 26, 2007, 22:17 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705262311380.4648@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46588DA4.5020109@xs4all.nl>

Hi,

[before answering: a big thank you, Han-Wen, for doing that work. I think it is very valuable, especially because except Johannes Sixt, I have yet to encounter a person wanting "naive" Windows Git, but not hiding under the next rock when it comes to work on it.]

On Sat, 26 May 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin escreveu:
> > 
> > On Fri, 25 May 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > 
> >> * I personally think that the files should go into
> >>
> >> 	$PROGRAMFILES/Git/{bin,share,lib}
> >> instead of
> >> 	$PROGRAMFILES/Git/usr/{bin,share,lib}
> > 
> > Agree. It is trivial, but it will help others. It might also be a good 
> > idea to have a shortcut in "$PF/Git/Git Gui.lnk" to the git gui (once it 
> > is working, that is).
> > 
> >> * git-gui and gitk don't work out of the box because they have the path
> >> to wish hardcoded. They can't be started from CMD at all. I have written
> >> wrappers gitk.cmd and git-gui.cmd with these 2 lines:
> >>
> >> @echo off
> >> start wish84 D:/MSYS/1.0/git/bin/gitk %*
> >>
> >> But as you can see, the path is still hard-coded (but it is good enough
> >> for me for the moment).
> > 
> > I'd also like to see bash, perl and wish bundled with the install (Windows 
> 
> Where is the info on the wish and bash port to Mingw?

I recently compiled tcl and tk from scratch on MinGW. (No cross-compile.) Worked out of the box:

	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl8.4.14-src.tar.gz
	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tk8.4.14-src.tar.gz

(Now, if only Python worked like that...)

There's a bash src in the Snapshot package of MinGW:

	http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/bash-2.05b-MSYS-src.tar.bz2?download

Ciao, Dscoh