I can confirm the out-of-the-box windows build. I am using the make from the UnxUtils package: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Where I went wrong was not installing the sh.exe binary, which this build of make relies on. So the minimal environment to build fossil on windows seems to be: - mingw, with zlib library - from unxutil: make, sh, rm, mkdir and gawk renamed to awk. The unxutil binaries are about ~900K together, so that's not too bad. Paul On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:36:29 +1000, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep.. I build fossil in cmd.exe on vista regularly.. > > I have also managed to get ssh,git,perl + many other non windows friendly > packages to work "natively" > > I do have mingw+msys installed, but the biggest hassle was a lot of time > getting > the PATH environment right.. especially the order of the paths, so that > things > cascade through the various versions of different utils (especially ssh) > > for a while i had some custom edits to the makefile.w32, but the latest > version > from trunk now works fine as is.. > > > On 8/07/2010 7:38 AM, Ross Berteig wrote: >> At 03:34 AM 7/7/2010, Paul Ruizendaal wrote: >> >.... Building on Windows itself with gcc-mingw >> >doesn't work for me (just mingw installed, not cygwin or msys). >> >> Building within an MSYS shell worked out of the box for me, once >> I obtained a suitable packagine of zlib (I used the GnuWin32 port). >> >> >I keep finding myself making the following adjustments to >> >Makefile and src/main.mk: >> > >> >- change from slash to backslash in the file paths >> >- create VERSION.h by hand: even with awk installed, the quoting >> >involved >> >doesn't work >> > >> >There was an attempt to fix both issues a few weeks back, but is >> >was a botched attempt and the changes were backed out. The >> >slash/backslash thing should not be too hard to correct, and I'm >> >thinking to have a little C program to generate VERSION.h instead >> >of using awk for that. The source is already heavily >> >preprocessed, so building one more tool should not upset the >> >build design. >> >> I suspect that with some (nearly) magical environment variable >> tweakage make could be taught to use the MSYS bash as its shell, >> and could then happily build from a CMD prompt as well. But it >> would still require MSYS be installed. >> >> It should be possible in principle to make it possible to build >> with only MinGW32, Gnu Make, and enough ported unix-like core >> utities from the GnuWin32 project, but I didn't take the time to >> work out the stumbling blocks. >> >> As long as Gnu Make is used, there should be no need to convert >> between slashes and backslashes. Both are legal and understood by >> the Windows API. It is just that the DOS heritage of the command >> prompt (and its CPM heritage before that) tends to tread slash as >> an option starter. >> >> If the Makefile is careful to only use utilities and shell >> features that are either common between /bin/sh and CMD.EXE or >> provided in a readily available distribution like MinGW32 (for >> GCC) and from the GnuWin32 project then it should be possible to >> make it work on either *nix or Windows without any edits at all. >> >> That said, replacing the cryptic AWK invokations with a tiny C >> program seems like a decent idea. It wouldn't be difficult for it >> to be generically useful for any project that happens to use >> fossil, as this is a common need. >> >> Useful GnuWin32 packages include: >> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm >> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm >> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm >> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gawk.htm >> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zlib.htm >> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zip.htm >> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/unzip.htm >> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/cygutils.htm >> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/diffutils.htm >> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm >> >> >> Ross Berteig [email protected] >> Cheshire Engineering Corp. http://www.CheshireEng.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fossil-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >> > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
