Re: FeatureRequest: Build improvements for Windows

2015-07-26 Thread Philip Oakley
Hi, From: "Dangling Pointer" I searched in code and found instances of #ifdef _MSC_VER in https://github.com/git/git (original repository, not the fork). I am coming from github, where I have found many native lib repositories have two build files, build.sh and build.cmd with Git is a *nix co

RE: FeatureRequest: Build improvements for Windows

2015-07-26 Thread Dangling Pointer
kernel.org > Subject: Re: FeatureRequest: Build improvements for Windows > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 12:27:19 +0100 > > (In-line posting preferred; top-posting deprecated ;-) > (retain all cc's) > >> Hmm, it is already happening, isn't it? There is already a support o

Re: FeatureRequest: Build improvements for Windows

2015-07-26 Thread Philip Oakley
(In-line posting preferred; top-posting deprecated ;-) (retain all cc's) Hmm, it is already happening, isn't it? There is already a support of MSVCR in git's code base. I am referring to replacing that current support of 'older' MSVCR in favor of the latest one, so to make the git's code base

Re: FeatureRequest: Build improvements for Windows

2015-07-26 Thread Jacob Keller
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Dangling Pointer wrote: > Hello, > > In my understanding, the ratio between the mere consumers of git on Windows > vs. people who compile git for Windows is 100,000 : 1. If there is a breaking > change in the workflow of the latter set, who use Visual Studio to