In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said: > > Sven already replied, but roughly in the coreutils package. (the former > > findutils and diffutils iirc) > > Sorry if this is a daft question, but can't you use the msys coreutils? > Or do they have some limitation?
IIRC they were less adapted to windows. I got a cygwin vibe there, the state within a state principle, with shared memory space and all. A quick test seemed to not really be a substitution, but probably would need a whole process to support them and get it stable enough. That also means that other cygwin problems (multiple versions conflict due to clashing shared version) could reappear too. I never spent more than an evening on the test though, since I rather get rid of all the mingw parts instead (think fpmake here) > Last time I built fpc in windows, I didn't use the tools shipped with > fpc at all. I built it inside an msys terminal (with patched fpc > Makefiles). If you need to patch makefiles, doesn't that say enough ? :) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel