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From: Xavier Miller <xavier.miller@...>
Subject: Re: Gentoo with mingw ?
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:47:24 +0200

 1.1

Hmm... I don't see any limitation at the download page:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=93FF2201-325E-487F-A398-EFDE5758C47F&displaylang=en

I will take a try some day, even I find installing 500Mb to run 
GentooAlt is quite overkill, compared to msys/mingw.

Xavier Miller a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> SUA is only available with "not home" versions of Vista, even with SP1. 
> Thus "Home" users are left on the side of the road. I think that if we 
> would have a more universal "Gentoo on Windows", we also should think 
> about mingwin+msys or cygwin.
> 
> So I will take a look at the Interix port and see how difficult it would 
> be to adapt it to mingw.
> 
> Xavier.
> 
> Markus Duft a écrit :
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there a projet to run Gentoo / Gentoo Prefix with mingw (+ msys)?
>>> I took a look at Interix but it doensn't run with Windows Vista Home
>>
>> I thought this was solved with vista SP1? Am I wrong here?
>>
>>> and
>>> I would like a more "free" system, like Cygwin or Mingw.
>>>
>>> What would be the better approach : starting from old cygwin-portage or
>>> gentoo-prefix@interix?
>>
>> I think the interix version ist he more current one, although mingw 
>> will be
>> much different I guess. Still the interix port is the best starting point
>> you will ever get for this, I guess...
>>
>> Cheers, Markus
>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Xavier Miller
>>> -- 
>>> gentoo-alt@g.o mailing list
>>
>>
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