Hi Toby, Toby Johnson wrote: > David, maybe I missed something here but why are you building under > Cygwin? Both of these programs were developed initially on Windows, with > Linux build support added later on. Were you under the impression that > they are *nix only?
Unix only no, because I have used the existing nightly exe files on my XP box, but the only reference to building things on the wiki is phrased in terms of *nix, in fact it mentions using Cygwin under Windows to get the perl modules: http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/wiki/InstallingVss2Svn I only want to build this to get the patches that Alexander Gavrilov submitted in late May 2008. I have never looked at perl before playing with vss2svn and my general impression (dangerous things!) was that it was a *nix thing. OK, it's a script language that can be used anywhere the interpreter is available, but its use in the Windows world is not widespread in my experience. > FYI regarding the nightlies, all they did was "compile" the Perl script > into an .exe so that people who didn't have Perl installed could run > vss2svn.exe. But I never worked on getting ssphys building in the > nightly, I always just waited for one of the ssphys developers to upload > a new binary. OK then, as I said all I want to do is build a version of vss2svn.exe containing the patches that Alexander submitted. How would I go about that on my XP box? Unless ssphys has had any improvements since April I don't particularly *want* to build it. I have a copy of the vss2svn SVN project on my XP box, I have copies of the patches on my XP box, I know how to apply the patches, I even have a version of Perl (v5.8.8) available from XP. :) I would like to build the vss2svn.exe file, but maybe from what you said I don't have to. Maybe I just patch the perl files and execute the vss2svn.pl with the appropriate arguments? Certainly sounds easier. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ vss2svn-users mailing list Project homepage: http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/ Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Admin: http://lists.pumacode.org/mailman/listinfo/vss2svn-users-lists.pumacode.org Mailing list web interface (with searchable archives): http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.vss2svn.user
