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Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:14:52 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:47:43 +0200

I think native build plus MSYS <URL:http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml>
is a pretty good combination, but I have not actively tried it myself,
not being a Windows user.

AFAIK, MSYS is not a full suite of ports, its purpose is to provide an
environment for running configure scripts.  Also, it has some
Cygwin-style maladies which could be a pain on Windows (for example,
Diff uses binary I/O, and thus compares files different when they only
differ in their end-of-line format, Newline vs CRLF).
I have been playing with MSYS a bit and I strongly agree with Eli that there unfortunately are some problems currently using MSYS. The compression built into Emacs (jka) is another example where the handling of end-of-line in MSYS makes it impossible to use. (I hope this one is cured in very soon.)

There also currently seems to be a bug in MSYS sh parameter handling which causes trouble.

However if these bugs where corrected and MSYS changed the end-of-line handling (for example for diff) I think it would be very good to use with Emacs. Until then it is much easier to use the GnuWin32 tools (which however unfortunately misses a sh).

And actually, the situation is more complicated than that. For some things you want to do you need a sh. Currently MSYS is the easiest way to get that. In those situations you have to switch to the MSYS environments for those things and then switch back to the GnuWin32 tools. Not very convinient indeed!





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