[fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
> > Sven already replied, but roughly  in the coreutils package. (the former
> > findutils and diffutils iirc)
> 
> Sorry if this is a daft question, but can't you use the msys coreutils?
> Or do they have some limitation?

IIRC they were less adapted to windows. I got a cygwin vibe there, the state
within a state principle, with shared memory space and all.

A quick test seemed to not really be a substitution, but probably would need
a whole process to support them and get it stable enough.

That also means that other cygwin problems (multiple versions conflict due
to clashing shared version) could reappear too.

I never spent more than an evening on the test though, since I rather get
rid of all the mingw parts instead (think fpmake here)

> Last time I built fpc in windows, I didn't use the tools shipped with
> fpc at all.  I built it inside an msys terminal (with patched fpc
> Makefiles).

If you need to patch makefiles, doesn't that say enough ? :)