[mythtv] Windows port

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Oct 6 13:41:07 UTC 2006


Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> writes:

> On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 08:26 -0400, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
>> DanielK - in the ticket you expressed reservations about cygwin - can
>> you elaborate?
> Well we had a SoC student planning to do a full port at the time.
> There is nothing wrong with cygwin per-say, it is the quickest way
> to get a POSIX environment up and running. My concern was mainly
> about pulling in a large dependency when it could be avoided.
>
> At this point as long as someone gets the port done, I really
> don't care that much about the particulars.

You might want to look at MSYS and MinGW -- it's a subset of Cygwin
but sufficient to build lots of things.

> -- Daniel

-derek

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