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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, 16:20 UTC
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Hi,
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
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> On 7/10/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> The exact answer is "I don't know" :-) I cross compile all the time
> however it should build fine on MinGW as it now uses git Makefile.
> I'll push the patch into mob soon.
Do you mean the whole busybox thing?

If so, please do not put it into mingw.git. Rather, start a busybox.git project (I saw that you have already some projects on repo.or.cz, so it should be easy for you.)

Thanks, Dscho

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