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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-04-20 15:33:13 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-04-20 15:33:13 -0400 |
| commit | b7c790f8cf9ee1aacfcface9eca64db3184e48c5 (patch) | |
| tree | 6226b35c821b1c632771dcf4776596dac7b08437 | |
| parent | 59e6f34864b7004836e01ead3d41c41ac28d9265 (diff) | |
avoid needing mingw to build on windows
It was only used for its shell; cygwin has a shell.
| -rw-r--r-- | build.bat | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/install/Windows.mdwn | 5 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1 +1 @@ -C:\MINGW\MSYS\1.0\BIN\SH.EXE standalone/windows/build-simple.sh +C:\CYGWIN\BIN\SH.EXE standalone/windows/build-simple.sh diff --git a/doc/install/Windows.mdwn b/doc/install/Windows.mdwn index 5080fc9cb..3d4b7a073 100644 --- a/doc/install/Windows.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/Windows.mdwn @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ A daily build is also available, thanks to Yury V. Zaytsev and ## building it yourself To build git-annex from source on Windows, you need to install -the Haskell Platform, Mingw, and Cygwin. Use Cygwin to install: +the Haskell Platform and Cygwin. Use Cygwin to install these packages: gcc rsync git wget ssh gnupg Once the prerequisites are installed, run: @@ -35,5 +35,8 @@ Once the prerequisites are installed, run: cd gitannex build +Note that git from Cygwin is able to clone git-annex's git repository; +Msysgit cannot due to some characters in filenames. + (To build the git-annex installer, you also need to install the NullSoft installer system.) |