Re: dpkg minw32

2010-07-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > ok. so that still leaves a sticky situation with using the tar > binary instead of libtar, and the fact that mingw32 doesn't have > fork(), and even _remotely_ considering attempting to use win32's > popen would result in a dog's dinner beyond all reasonable

Re: dpkg minw32

2010-07-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Luke, > > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > >>                        i looked up "dpkg win32" on google and found a >> failed project.  so, i tried cross-compiling dpkg myself.  i found >> that it, too, wasn't going to work, and the

Re: dpkg minw32

2010-07-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Luke, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >i looked up "dpkg win32" on google and found a > failed project. so, i tried cross-compiling dpkg myself. i found > that it, too, wasn't going to work, and the reason was that yes, > again: fork and popen are used, to communi

dpkg minw32

2010-07-09 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
dear debian-pkg, last year i began cross-compiling packages for win32 using mingw32 (installed under wine and also using mingw32-cross). i spent one week fighting with libicu38 and 90 other dependencies just to get one application compiled (webkit). i hunted down a dozen different obscure bits o