On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:04:59PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said: > > > Sven already replied, but roughly in the coreutils package. (the former > > > findutils and diffutils iirc) > > > > Sorry if this is a daft question, but can't you use the msys coreutils? > > Or do they have some limitation? > > IIRC they were less adapted to windows. I got a cygwin vibe there, the state > within a state principle, with shared memory space and all. > > A quick test seemed to not really be a substitution, but probably would need > a whole process to support them and get it stable enough. > > That also means that other cygwin problems (multiple versions conflict due > to clashing shared version) could reappear too. > > I never spent more than an evening on the test though, since I rather get > rid of all the mingw parts instead (think fpmake here)
This would indeed be the best solution, thanks for the background. > > Last time I built fpc in windows, I didn't use the tools shipped with > > fpc at all. I built it inside an msys terminal (with patched fpc > > Makefiles). > > If you need to patch makefiles, doesn't that say enough ? :) I already had a full mingw/msys installation with up to date binutils and coreutils and didn't want to install fpc's bundled outdated tools. Patching the Makefiles was the only sane thing to do, since I spend most of my time in windows working with the msys terminal (mintty, actually). Henry _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
