From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:39:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [WIP] Get rid of msys in favor of busybox port for windows
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707101638521.4047@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0707100832j3c2ff076gab5c9bd4f9d3f4a0@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> 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