Re: Compiling on Windows

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

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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

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#include <sys/resource.h>

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#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 :)