[Mono-dev] Windows build

[Michael Jerris]

Is there a compelling reason (other than the fact that the managed  
code does not yet build off the msvc build system) to support msys or  
cygwin at all?

Mike

On Jul 18, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Leszek Ciesielski wrote:

> A sidenote (and an argument for msys): folks behind Windows git port
> are currently finishing their migration from cygwin to msys because of
> performance reasons.
>
> 2008/7/17 Jonathan Chambers <joncham at gmail.com>:
>> I started looking at using msys to build mono a few months ago. I got
>> distracted by some other things (mainly the beginning of the Win64  
>> port),
>> but I would be willing to pick it up again if there is interest. It  
>> would
>> probably be a good thing, IMO.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Kornél Pál <kornelpal at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> msys could be a better choice because cygwin uses it's own runtime  
>>> that
>>> has to be avoided by using -mno-cygwin and I believe that msys is  
>>> easier to
>>> install but I'm not sure that it's currently properly supported by  
>>> Mono.
>>>
>>> In the previous version of the buildbot page there was a button to  
>>> force a
>>> build immediately. In the current version I didn't find a similar
>>> functionality. Is it possible to make a build when I want to?
>>>
>>> Kornél
>>>
>>> Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 08:47 -0400, Jonathan Chambers wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>    I reverted your changes related to __ImageBase yesterday in  
>>>>> hopes
>>>>> of getting something working. The build machine has historically  
>>>>> had a
>>>>> (very) old version of cygwin, as upgrading cygwin in the past has
>>>>> cause problems. However, it would be nice to upgrade the cygwin  
>>>>> on the
>>>>> build machine at some point; I am not sure who is responsible  
>>>>> for that
>>>>> in Novell.
>>>>
>>>> I'm the responsible person there but as you say we've been bit in  
>>>> the
>>>> past.  I am willing to upgrade cygwin but I think it would be  
>>>> best to
>>>> wait until after the 2.0 release.
>>>>
>>>> Also there was some discussion about using msys instead?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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