Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone and Win32

[Jon Bright]

travis ray wrote:
> I'm evaluating monotone for personal use, and I have a few questions
> concerning compilation on the Win32 platform (XP and possibly 98):
>     1. What tools were used to create the Windows XP executable linked
> on the homepage?

MinGW/MSYS

>     2. Has anyone attempted to build monotone using MinGW/MSYS?

Yes - indeed, that's the only windows port that's been done to date afaik.

>     3. Does anyone know of any reason why using MinGW/MSYS wouldn't be possible?

No-one does, since it already is.

>     4. Would anyone be interested in a MinGW/MSYS build procedure
> should I succeed?

Take a look at the mailing list archives - I last posted the build 
procedure on 15th October 2004.  May not be completely up-to-date, but 
should be obvious if anything's missing.

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