[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-devel] Parallel processing in the compiler

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 6 September 2010 10:27, Henry Vermaak wrote:
> The install is crazy, it basically installs a whole mingw/msys system
> (when I last checked).  I've already got an mingw/msys install and
> having two is suicide.  I've heard that people use the git install as
> a base and then install other mingw/msys packages on top of it.


No idea which Windows git version you are running. There is the old
Cygwin version, and the newer (windows native) msysGit version. The
latter is a mere 12MB download, and allows install customization on
how it should integrate with Windows, and how it should handle
LineEnding characters etc.  Nothing difficult about it, and the tools
included work just fine.

Saying that, my Windows usage is limited these days. For the last few
years, most of my time spent developing software is under Linux. But
we do test our software and do bug fixing under Windows, in a
VirtualBox session. In such cases I do use msysGit (last installed
version is 1.6.2.1 from 2009-03), and found none of the issues Florian
raised. I have a cloned copy of FPC & Lazarus git mirrors, and of our
company software repositories all setup in the VM session. A
stand-alone development VM environment. Maybe I'm just lucky, or
Windows behaves better in a limited VM environment.  Who knows? :-)


-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


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