Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Status of native Windows port?

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:33 AM, Patrick Nagel wrote:
> Thanks from me, too! Although I don't have a copy of MS Visual  
> Studio 2003
> available, so I can't build rdiff-backup on Windows myself.
>
> Is there no way to make the build process less dependent on this  
> piece of
> closed-source software?

It's not dependent. VS2003 was only necessary at the start since  
Python for Windows is compiled under the same tools and Josh  
encountered some issues when using other compilers and linking against  
the Windows file libraries (iirc). We have since worked around those  
issues (and benefited from the workaround).

There was a report that rdiff-backup was successfully compiled under  
MinGW earlier this month. If you create a build script for that  
environment, it can be certainly be posted as well.


Andrew