Re: MinGW binary installer available

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> I had a try to see whether I could make GUB
> also produce a MinGW installer for Git.

Great!

> You can download the result at 
> 
> http://lilypond.org/mingit/mingit-1.4.9993-1.mingw.exe
> 
> the odd version number was because I was too lazy to write code
> to extract the version number from the repository automatically.
> 
> I don't actually have a windows copy, so it's basically untested.
> However, I did succeed in running rev-list in wine.

I played a little with it. IMHO it makes no sense to use it without a 
bash, and without less. For example,

	$ git init
	$ git add git.exe
	$ git status
	$ git commit -a -m initial
	$ git show HEAD

do not produce any output when issued in cmd.

Also, many scripts rely on bash and/or perl, so you'd have to include 
them, too.

> PS. I'd be interested in comments on using GUB from others.
> GUB is a cross-compiling build tool, probably best described
> as a "Poor Man's Conary".
>  
> Once I have the boilerplate code committed, building this 
> installer should amount to  
> 
>   darcs get  http://lilypond.org/vc/gub.darcs/ gub
>   cd gub
>   make -f Makefile.mingit bootstrap mingw

I'll try that if I get the time.

> (yes, GUB itself is still hosted in Darcs. Shoot me.)

I will.

Ciao,
Dscho