Re: [msysGit] Re: Compiling on Windows

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

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Philip Oakley wrote:

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From: "Vincent van Ravesteijn" <redacted>

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

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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out of date for the case where the netinstall was used.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