Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git)

On 8/3/07, Marius Storm-Olsen [off-list ref] wrote:

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Great effort Johannes! The package work perfectly on XP. I'm
trying to get it to work under Wine, but it (Wine) is not playing
 nice with me at the moment. (The whole system barfs of "Access
Denied" and other things. Grrr)

Even if it installs ok under Wine, git may not work properly
because a bug in dup2() not duplicating to 0-2 and some others that
I think only affect tests. So get XP if you can or prepare to fix
Wine along the way.

Yeah, I wasn't going to use it under Wine actually. Just wanted to see
if I could get it building there, to ease automated packaging later.
However, I've given up on it, due to a perl issue, which might be
caused by the issue you describe.

You could cross-compile it. You'll need a cross toolchain, zlib stuff
and a good config.mak (I can send you one if you have trouble with
it).
-- 
Duy