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Re: [WIP] Get rid of msys in favor of busybox port for windows

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 10, 2007, 15:39 UTC
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Hi,
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
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> I'm integrating some code from busybox to mingw tree so that mingw port 
> can work without msys. Posix utilities such as sed, awk, head, tail... 
> seem to work well. The main obstacle is ash, which is no where near 
> usable state (fork issues as always). Busybox ash is about 13000 lines 
> of code, not too big.
> 
> Anyone interested in?
Definitely.

Last time I wanted to assess how much work it is to compile that on MinGW, though, it seemed to be too much to be tractable.

Ciao, Dscho

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