Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Xavier Miller <xavier.miller@×××××.org>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Gentoo with mingw ?
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:47:26
Message-Id: 48804A8C.3010505@cauwe.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Gentoo with mingw ? by Xavier Miller
1 Hmm... I don't see any limitation at the download page:
2 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=93FF2201-325E-487F-A398-EFDE5758C47F&displaylang=en
3
4 I will take a try some day, even I find installing 500Mb to run
5 GentooAlt is quite overkill, compared to msys/mingw.
6
7 Xavier Miller a écrit :
8 > Hello,
9 >
10 > SUA is only available with "not home" versions of Vista, even with SP1.
11 > Thus "Home" users are left on the side of the road. I think that if we
12 > would have a more universal "Gentoo on Windows", we also should think
13 > about mingwin+msys or cygwin.
14 >
15 > So I will take a look at the Interix port and see how difficult it would
16 > be to adapt it to mingw.
17 >
18 > Xavier.
19 >
20 > Markus Duft a écrit :
21 >>> Hello,
22 >>>
23 >>> Is there a projet to run Gentoo / Gentoo Prefix with mingw (+ msys)?
24 >>> I took a look at Interix but it doensn't run with Windows Vista Home
25 >>
26 >> I thought this was solved with vista SP1? Am I wrong here?
27 >>
28 >>> and
29 >>> I would like a more "free" system, like Cygwin or Mingw.
30 >>>
31 >>> What would be the better approach : starting from old cygwin-portage or
32 >>> gentoo-prefix@interix?
33 >>
34 >> I think the interix version ist he more current one, although mingw
35 >> will be
36 >> much different I guess. Still the interix port is the best starting point
37 >> you will ever get for this, I guess...
38 >>
39 >> Cheers, Markus
40 >>
41 >>> Kind regards,
42 >>> Xavier Miller
43 >>> --
44 >>> gentoo-alt@l.g.o mailing list
45 >>
46 >>
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RE: [gentoo-alt] Gentoo with mingw ? Markus Duft <mduft@g.o>