On Aug 10, 2013, at 11:46 PM, Mike Parker <aldac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Things can be wonky from a vanilla windows command prompt, which is why I > never use any Linux tools there. MSYS makes all those problems go away. I use > git exclusively on windows, but via gitbash, which is built on top of MSYS. > > Of course, it would be silly to require MSYS or Cygwin to build on Windows, > but there's always CMake. A number of open source projects use it these days. > Ship a configuration file with the source, then the user can generate > Makefiles for a number of compilers and platforms. I haven't used it recently, but GnuWin32 (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/) provides good ports of *nix apps without the need for MSYS or Cygwin.
