From: BSimon AT randata DOT com DOT au (Brendan Simon) Subject: GNU RCS with MinGW32 or CygWin32 13 Feb 1998 01:01:10 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "'GNU-Win32'" I wish to compile GNU RCS. I wish to use this in an environment where Unix is not a concern (to most anyway) so I thought I would us MinGW32 as it is apparently quite a bit faster than CygWin32. Having used the CygWin stuff I have no reason to doubt it. I'd prefer to use CygWin for the portability aspects and even simple tools like 'ls', 'cat', 'grep', etc. Anyways the main problem with MinGW32 is that it does not handle configure scripts. Not knowing much about them I had a quick look at the script and it looks like a bash script. Is this true ? If so, then I guess I'd need bash ported to MinGW32. Is there one available ? Am I fighting a loosing battle trying to compile this type of program with MinGW32 ? ie. Should I forget it and stick with CygWin ? I have seen binary ports of GNU RCS before supposably done with DJGPP or commercial M$-Windows compilers. How are these done without using configure. Any help, advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Brendan Simon bsimon AT randata DOT com DOT au - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".