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

> 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?

> 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.

> 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.

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>
> > 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.)

> 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?

> On 7/10/07, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> 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?
> If I can use it without needing a "vi/vim" implementation I'm interested !