[cvsnt] Re: Compiling CVSGraph for Win32???

[Bo Berglund]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:04:32 +0100, Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org>
wrote:

>Bo Berglund wrote:
>> In the CVSNT Wiki there is a page describing how to compile CVSGraph,
>> but this does not tell the whole story....
>> http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/CvsGraphMingw
>> Unfortunately it is missing out on defining the basics:
>> 
>> I was trying to follow this description but I failed very soon:
>> - First of all it does not say which c compiler to use!
>>   Visual Studio 6, DOTNet (hardly!) or what????
>
> From the title I'd guess it uses mingw:
>
>http://www.mingw.org/
>
>> - Next it talks about "msys bash prompt"...
>>   What is that? I don't have any clue at all.
>
>The site above mentions this.
>
>I'd expect a VC6 native build wouldn't be too hard to do, although you'd 
>need a native lex and yacc I'd expect.
>
>Tony

Didn't realize that the first step was to obtain the environment and
the compiler. Maybe this should be spelled out more clearly on the
Wiki page? But it is immutable so I can't do it...


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)