[Monotone-devel] Re: cygwin & *.exe

[graydon hoare]

Zbynek Winkler wrote:

> Yes. I've found that out too. I've managed to build both versions of the 
> library. One works fine with the windows paths and the other with 
> cygwins. So we can choose :-)

hm. I'm not sure, honestly, how cygwin users prefer to operate. I guess 
it depends if they spend all day in cygwin, or are just using it for the 
sake of monotone.

> That would certainly be better. I am also more experienced with vc++ so 
> I might be of more help there. sqlite seems to be able to work natively 
> on windows. I've also found native popt. I know there is native iconv 
> and intl. What I do not know about is lua, adns and cryptopp. How do 
> they like windows? adns seems to be pretty much unix only.

lua and cryptopp are known to work under windows compilers, but possibly 
their make rules will need some adjustment. there is also port of adns 
for windows here: http://adns.jgaa.com/, but it might need some work to 
integrate into our build nicely.

> PS. My current build of monotone works with windows paths. It requires 
> only cygwin1, cygiconv, cygintl dlls and it should work. I could upload 
> it somewhere (striped 4MB) for you to test.

this is fantastic news! yes, please, any place you'd care to put it 
would be great.

-graydon