Compiling on Windows

Hi list, I have been searching for details on what is required to
compile on Windows, but haven't found anything conclusive. Perhaps
there is something on the wiki, but unfortunately it is down at the
moment.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I would like to be able to
compile and test topic branches, and perhaps even do some dev work on
my windows machine.

Regards,

Andrew Ardill

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:08:16 +0200, Andrew Ardill  
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi list, I have been searching for details on what is required to
compile on Windows, but haven't found anything conclusive. Perhaps
there is something on the wiki, but unfortunately it is down at the
moment.

There's this project called msysgit[0]. The website depends on the wiki  
for explanation though.

Cheers,
Frans

[0]http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

Thanks for the replies all - I think my main issue was that the wiki
is down and msysgit has very little use-able documentation otherwise.
I had cloned the msysgit project, but was lost on what to do from
there. Foolishly, I had glossed over the msysgit installers on the
project home (I think I thought they were Git for Windows installers).

I have now installed everything, and am ready to hack. Perhaps the
first port of call is adding a README to msysgit :D

Thanks again,

Andrew Ardill

Take a look at Cygwin.
On Windows I use Git under Cygwin.
And, of course, Git can be compiled there (with dependencies installed 
like openssl-dev, curl-dev, etc)

Hi list, I have been searching for details on what is required to
compile on Windows, but haven't found anything conclusive. Perhaps
there is something on the wiki, but unfortunately it is down at the
moment.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I would like to be able to
compile and test topic branches, and perhaps even do some dev work on
my windows machine.

Regards,

Andrew Ardill

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Andrew Ardill [off-list ref] wrote:

Thanks for the replies all - I think my main issue was that the wiki
is down and msysgit has very little use-able documentation otherwise.
I had cloned the msysgit project, but was lost on what to do from
there. Foolishly, I had glossed over the msysgit installers on the
project home (I think I thought they were Git for Windows installers).

Yeah, the installer sets up a fully self-contained MSYS-based
development environment to hack on Git for Windows.

I have now installed everything, and am ready to hack. Perhaps the
first port of call is adding a README to msysgit :D

Not at all a bad idea!

It'd be awesome if it even worked with the GitHub markup-stuff as
well, since we moved the project there :)

On 18.10.2011 16:02, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

quoted

there. Foolishly, I had glossed over the msysgit installers on the
project home (I think I thought they were Git for Windows installers).

Yeah, the installer sets up a fully self-contained MSYS-based
development environment to hack on Git for Windows.

I keep advertizing my mingwGitDevEnv [1] project which aims to become an alternative to the current msysGit net installer [2]. The advantage of mingwGitDevEnv will be that it comes with an mingw-get based environment, i.e. you can very easily update / add new MinGW / MSYS tools directly from upstream.

Just today I reached a state were mingwGitDevEnv can successfully build git.exe, but git-gui etc. are still missing due to a lack of mingw-get compatible Tcl/Tk packages.

[1] https://github.com/sschuberth/mingwGitDevEnv
[2] http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/msysGit-netinstall-1.7.7-preview20111014.exe

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth

Op 18-10-2011 6:08, Andrew Ardill schreef:

Hi list, I have been searching for details on what is required to
compile on Windows, but haven't found anything conclusive. Perhaps
there is something on the wiki, but unfortunately it is down at the
moment.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I would like to be able to
compile and test topic branches, and perhaps even do some dev work on
my windows machine.

I once wrote a little step-by-step tutorial on how to compile the native 
Windows Git with MSVC (Express).

http://blog.vfrconsultancy.nl/#post0

Be aware that git runs without apparent problems, but that all 
functionality written in shell scripts can't be used.

HTH,

Vincent

From: "Vincent van Ravesteijn" <redacted>

Op 18-10-2011 6:08, Andrew Ardill schreef:

quoted

Hi list, I have been searching for details on what is required to
compile on Windows, but haven't found anything conclusive. Perhaps
there is something on the wiki, but unfortunately it is down at the
moment.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I would like to be able to
compile and test topic branches, and perhaps even do some dev work on
my windows machine.

I once wrote a little step-by-step tutorial on how to compile the native 
Windows Git with MSVC (Express).

http://blog.vfrconsultancy.nl/#post0

The blog post filled in a few gaps in the Msysgit README instructions about 
where to place the various downloads described.

Be aware that git runs without apparent problems, but that all 
functionality written in shell scripts can't be used.

HTH,

Vincent
--

Many thanks, it saved me asking.
Philip 

Hi,

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Philip Oakley wrote:

From: "Vincent van Ravesteijn" <redacted>

quoted

Op 18-10-2011 6:08, Andrew Ardill schreef:

quoted

Hi list, I have been searching for details on what is required to 
compile on Windows, but haven't found anything conclusive. Perhaps 
there is something on the wiki, but unfortunately it is down at the 
moment.

The quickest way to get Git for Windows compiled is to download & run
msysGit-netinstall from http://msysgit.googlecode.com/.

Ciao,
Johannes

From: "Johannes Schindelin" <redacted>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 12:17 AM

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Philip Oakley wrote:

quoted

From: "Vincent van Ravesteijn" <redacted>

quoted

Op 18-10-2011 6:08, Andrew Ardill schreef:

quoted

Hi list, I have been searching for details on what is required to
compile on Windows, but haven't found anything conclusive. Perhaps
there is something on the wiki, but unfortunately it is down at the
moment.

The quickest way to get Git for Windows compiled is to download & run
msysGit-netinstall from http://msysgit.googlecode.com/.

Johannes,
I've got the msysGit-netinstall, which is excellent, however it was the 
additional setting up of MSVC (Microsoft Visual Studio) that I was trying to 
get going as an IDE tool - Its a tool I have to use at work so I'm familiar 
with it. I know that an MSVC compilation is not perfect..., but it would 
allow me easier development before a proper gcc compilation.

The C:\msysgit\git\compat\vcbuild\README gave details of the extra parts to 
download but it wasn't clear to me where I should put them within the C:\ or 
C:\msysgit\ directory.

The msysGit-netinstall already includes git (C:\msysgit\git), so I wasn't 
sure if I should download it a second time as instructed in the README. With 
the improvements in msysGit-netinstall I expect that the README is slightly 
out of date for the case where the netinstall was used. The blog post gave 
an indication of _where_ the downloads were to be placed, but was otherwise 
very similar to the README instructions.

regards
Philip

quoted

I once wrote a little step-by-step tutorial on how to compile the 
native Windows Git with MSVC (Express).

http://blog.vfrconsultancy.nl/#post0

The blog post filled in a few gaps in the Msysgit README instructions 
about where to place the various downloads described.

I updated the post a little so that it actually works again. I somehow 
like to have a real native Windows compilation of Git.

To successfully compile Git, we also need to change

#include <sys/resource.h>

into

#include <io.h>

I have seen some communication about this in the past, but nobody cared 
enough to fix this.

Shall I sent a patch that adds a file "compat/win32/sys/resource.h" 
which just includes "io.h" ? Or is there another more prefered way to 
fix this ?

Vincent

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

quoted

I once wrote a little step-by-step tutorial on how to compile the native
Windows Git with MSVC (Express).

http://blog.vfrconsultancy.nl/#post0

The blog post filled in a few gaps in the Msysgit README instructions
about where to place the various downloads described.

I updated the post a little so that it actually works again. I somehow like
to have a real native Windows compilation of Git.

Git for Windows is a "real native Windows compilation of Git". You
don't need a MSVC-compiled binary for that.

To successfully compile Git, we also need to change

quoted

#include <sys/resource.h>

into

quoted

#include <io.h>

I have seen some communication about this in the past, but nobody cared
enough to fix this.

There's been some patches dealing with this recently on the msysgit
mailing list. Look for the patches prefixed with "MSVC" in Karsten
Blees' Unicode series. They will be kicked out of the next iteration
of the Unicode series, but if you want to pick them up, clean up the
issues pointed out and re-submit them, that'd be very welcome.

Shall I sent a patch that adds a file "compat/win32/sys/resource.h" which
just includes "io.h" ? Or is there another more prefered way to fix this ?

I would prefer <io.h> to be included from compat/msvc.h instead,
because <io.h> isn't a <sys/resource.h> replacement.

As for the missing <sys/resource.h>, I'm not so sure. We don't have
<sys/resource.h> in msysGit either, and I personally don't like the
whole adding-stub-headers approach too much, but it does seem to be
the precedence set for the MSVC-build...

In general I'd say that no-one have worked the MSVC-support in a
while, patches would be welcome :)