Matthew England wrote:
> I'm curious: If 1.2-rc1 present enough difficulty compiling with
> VisualStudio/Microsoft compilers, why not build with a cygwin
> (http://cygwin.com) instead?
>
> Yes, there will be a cygwin1.dll (or whatever the name of the lib is)
> dependence that the resulting svn software will have (which you will not
> notice on the machines that have cygwin installed...and/or if you copy
> said
> cygwin run-time .dll file to machines that done), but isn't this better
> then not having a build at all?
>
> I build lots of POSIX-flavored, open-source software on Windows, and I
> have
> *never* used VS to do it, I always use cygwin, in part because of build
> problems (and because I'm a unix geek in general and don't care for MS's
> build environments and non-POSIX-friendly approach). Generally if it
> builds in Linux it usually has a good chance of building in cygwin.
>
> Maybe this is a path this community has been down already...or people
> simply don't want to go through the hassle of installing cygwin?
>
> I'll probaby be going through a cygwin build of WinXP shortly, if someone
> wants to ask me later how it goes don't hesitate to give me a holler.
I build the official Cygwin packages of Subversion - and it is very Unixy,
and quite easy.
Max.
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Received on Wed Apr 13 12:48:40 2005