[Geany-devel] Remove MSYS dependency of Geany on Win~1

[Colomban Wendling]

Le 26/06/2012 18:11, Nick Treleaven a écrit :
> On 25/06/2012 20:33, Dimitar Zhekov wrote:
>> Hi. Here is a small diff (for makefile.win32 and src/makefile.win32
>> only) that makes Geany 1.22 Win~1 compilation and installation
>> independent of MSYS. Usage:
>>
>> C>  mingw32-make -f makefile.win32
>> C>  mingw32-make -f makefile.win32 install
>>
>> Tested with mingw, cmd/tcc. Should work with MSYS make too... but I had
>> to use backslashes in the install: target, and am not sure if/how MSYS
>> make escapes them. Win~1 fully supports forward slashes internally, but
>> the command interpreters have only partial support.
> 
> MSYS does treat backslashes as escapes, and I think that is a worse
> problem than cmd.exe interpreting forward slashes as command options, as
> it can occur in more situations. I think we should use forward slashes
> throughout.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't get your patch to apply against current Git, but
> I'm not sure why (see attached file for errors). Can you/someone test if
> it applies (maybe there's something weird happening on my Windows setup)?

It applies fine here.  I join the diff from Git after I applied the
patch in case it helps, maybe your `git apply` will like it better?

OT: Nick, could you now merge the tagmanager/ tree rearrangement?


Regards,
Colomban