Ramsay Jones schrieb: > Johannes Sixt wrote: >> Ramsay Jones schrieb: >>> With these patches, the msvc build on cygwin seems to be working fine. >> What is "the msvc build on cygwin"? > > The same as the msvc build on msys-MinGW, but replace msys-MinGW > with Cygwin ;-) > >> Is it "git built with msvc, then run in cygwin"? > > Yes, but... *in theory* the cygwin msvc-built binaries could be transferred > to an msys system and they should work (exactly as the msvc build on msys). > Since I don't have an msys installation, I can't test that... so I won't > guarantee it will work! > > Any git needs a (bash-like) shell, perl, Tcl/Tk, ... etc. Just to check I understand correctly: you are running "make MSVC=1" on cygwin, and then you are using the resulting binaries with the POSIX tools from cygwin. -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html