> > What other Unix tools are people using on Win32? What I've found so far: > > - Cygwin > > - MinGW > > - GnuWin32 > I use GnuWin32 builds. They are native Windows programs and are > regularly updated whenever a new version is released.
Seems to be more active than UnxUtils at least :-) I did see that packages have a dependency.zip file, containing some required DLL's. Language and encoding functionality. Not sure why you'd need that, or if it can be disabled. Probably not without rebuilding... > Sometimes the GnuWin32 pre-built binaries have bugs, in which case I > download the sources, build them myself and debug the problem. That > is, if reporting the bug to the GnuWin32 bug-tracker doesn't get > responded quickly enough. You're using MSYS + MinGW to compile the GnuWin32 tools? Or CygWin+MinGW? Or something else? What are the differences between MSYS and CygWin, apart from the modifications mentioned earlier? GnuWin32 also mentions the combination CygWin and MinGW, but I don't know why you'd want that. > > The UnxUtils shell seems to behave a little strange as well; it produces > > weird characters and beeps (terminal issues in combi with cmd.exe?). What > > shells are other people using? Cmd.exe is getting better I must say, but a > > bash.exe would be nice :-) > Unfortunately, there's no native Windows port of Bash yet. I'm using > zsh ported several years ago, it is good enough for running > Makefile's. UnxUtils uses an old zsh, not sure if it's the same one; it produces strange output on my system... In the end, it's just plain awful...all the tricks and hacks just to get a working system on Win32 ;-) Slash backslash, quote double quote, C:, cmd bash, colon semi colon...it's giving me the creeps :-) -- Joost Leeuwesteijn _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
