Re: [NOT_A_PATCH] A naive attempt to cross-build Linux-mingw64 Git

2014-04-22 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Marat, On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Marat Radchenko wrote: Johannes says building mingw64 Git is dirt-easy. Marat, please let's stop misquoting me, okay? What I said was more along the lines that there had been some start of a work on getting things to compile for 64-bit Windows, but that the test

Re: [NOT_A_PATCH] A naive attempt to cross-build Linux-mingw64 Git

2014-04-22 Thread Felipe Contreras
Marat Radchenko wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 07:06:24PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: I managed to fix all the errors, some apply to newer mingw, regardless of 32 or 64, others are specific to 64-bit. It's all hacky and I haven't checked if it runs, but at least it compiles

[NOT_A_PATCH] A naive attempt to cross-build Linux-mingw64 Git

2014-04-21 Thread Marat Radchenko
config.mak.uname: provide a way to explicitely request MinGW build. This is required to perform Linux-MinGW crosscompilation. --- Personally I don't see why ideally I shouldn't be able to build upstream Git for Windows with mingw without leaving my Linux system. One day you might be able, but

RE: [NOT_A_PATCH] A naive attempt to cross-build Linux-mingw64 Git

2014-04-21 Thread Felipe Contreras
Marat Radchenko wrote: config.mak.uname: provide a way to explicitely request MinGW build. This is required to perform Linux-MinGW crosscompilation. --- Personally I don't see why ideally I shouldn't be able to build upstream Git for Windows with mingw without leaving my Linux system.