Inconvenient behaviour difference between bazaar on linux and windows(MinGW/Msys)

[Michael Gliwinski]

On Friday 06 Apr 2012 11:04:29 David Ingamells wrote:
> >>> If so does anyone have any advice for installing Bazaar (and by
> >>> implication python) in this MinGW+Msys environment?
> >> 
> >> Cygwin?
> 
> Thanks all for the suggestions/feedback. I could not find an available
> msys version of python.
> The development team here need to build native windows executables, but
> they say that building under cygwin creates executabes that need cygwin
> at run time which is a pain for their users.
> Building under MinGS+Msys avoids that problem.

IIRC you don't have to be running under cygwin shell to invoke a cygwin 
executable.  You could try running a cygwin python/bzr from msys shell/build 
system.


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