Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

[Alex Perez]

Nicola Pero wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:52:58 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Nicola Pero <address@hidden>
> To: Tom Koelman <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Installation on windows
>
>
>
> > Hey Nicola,
> >
> > are there specific reasons for including the msys developer toolkit
> > and libintl? If you don't install them, GNUstep still builds.
>
>
> Cool ... I included them because ... I think the msys developer toolkit
> includes cvs maybe ?  I wanted to download from CVS when I built ...

no it does not, you need to manually get/install this.

> ... and libintl, I just thought it was needed for libiconv ...
>
> ... but if it all builds (and works) without them, I agree we should
> remove them :-)

agreed, however not yet. There are currently issues with the path 
handling which causes certain things to only work inside the msys 
environment. If you remove it before those issues are fixed, you will 
introduce more problems.

Cheers,
Alex Perez