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

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 10, 2007, 16:08 UTC
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0707100908o4be761b9t920cdc65a72d9aee@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707101638521.4047@racer.site>

On 7/10/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> 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.

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.

-- 
Duy