Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Cygwin MSVC patches

From: Ramsay Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:03:23 +0000

Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Just to check I understand correctly: you are running "make MSVC=1" on
> cygwin, and then you are using the resulting binaries with the POSIX tools
> from cygwin.

Yes.

    $ uname -a
    CYGWIN_NT-5.1 toshiba 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin
    $ pwd
    /home/ramsay/git
    $ make clean
    [...output snipped...]
    $ make MSVC=1
    [...975 lines of output snipped; built OK...]
    $ ./git --version
    git version 1.6.5.4.g57e8c.MSVC
    $

See original [PATCH 0/4] email for more...

ATB,
Ramsay Jones