From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:08:33 GMT Subject: Re: [WIP] Get rid of msys in favor of busybox port for windows Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 7/10/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > 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