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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? >>> >>> >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list > > -- MS-DOS user since 5.0 Windows user since 3.11 Linux user since kernel 2.4 Novell Netware user since 2.2 WARCRAFT user since 1.0 _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list