On 6/28/10 2:20 AM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
On 06/28/2010 03:21 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/27/10 6:11 PM, geremy condra wrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Grant
Edwards<inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
If you install a real shell on Windows, then the hash-bang line works
fine. :)
Might as well spare yourself the trouble and install linux or *bsd. It's
probably easier.
Not at all, bash via msys is trivial to install and use.
Installing Linux is still a LOT easier than installing a working MSYS
since you get proper package management with proper dependency
resolution, while with MSYS, you end up downloading dozens of different
inter-dependent GNU packages one-by-one until anything works. At least
that's what it looked like a couple of months ago.
Granted, cygwin has a nice installer.
Huh?
The hardest part about installing msys is adding mingw-get to the PATH.
Then you just "mingw-get install mingwrt w32api binutils gcc" and you
have your basic environment done. If there's something you want in
addition, say gdb, you just mingw-get install gdb. You don't have to
pick and choose various interdependent packages. It does allt he
dependency stuff for the packages it can handle.
Now, mingw-get is a bit newish (though I don't know when they came out
with it), but before that you only had to pick and choose packages IIRC
if you decided you wanted a really minimal msys. You could get a basic
'meh, basically everything normal' and just run with it and have nearly
everything you'd expect in a bash-command-line sort of environment.
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