From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:33:17 GMT Subject: Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi, On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Mike Pape wrote: > On 8/3/07, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > > >> Mike Pape wrote: > > >>> Works for me as well now. One catch is that at work, I'm behind > > >>> a firewall so git:// doesn't work for me. I have a packaged > > >>> version that adds curl and expat, enables them in the build, and > > >>> then falls back to http:// if git:// fails in /etc/profile. Is > > >>> that something you'd want up on code.google.com? > > >> Ooo, I'd like your built curl and expat libs in a zip, pretty > > >> please! :-) > > >> > > >> Then we can add it to the package. The more complete MinGW port, > > >> the better. Do you have anywhere you can put out such a zip, so I > > >> can get ahold of it? You can mail me privately, if you'd like. > > > > > > I already installed curl, didn't I? > > > > Ah, yes, you did. > > However, we don't use it, due to Makefile's > > NO_CURL=YesPlease > > for MINGW builds. > > > > Was it in the latest version (0.2)? I didn't see it there. Either > way, I had to make a couple changes to the Makefile to get it to work > and also add expat (unless I somehow missed that too). Marius, do you > still want a zipped copy or do you have it already? Okay, I am really close to initialising the repository on http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw/msysgit.git now. Everybody interested in contributing, please register as a user on repo.or.cz and mail me your user name. Ciao, Dscho