Re: [Mingw-users] mingw-coreutils?

[Fabian G. <fa...@gr...>]

Hi Erwin,

Am 25.08.2011 07:02, schrieb Erwin Waterlander:
> There is UnxUtils (http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/) and GnuWin32
> (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/), but these project didn't update in
> the past years. UnxUtils last update was on March 2003, and GnuWin32
> coreutils dates from April 2005.

these aren't "native" ports either. Unxutils depends on a library 
called "downhill" to provide POSIX API under Windows and GnuWin32 uses 
its own LibGW32C. Replace these with msys-1.0.dll and you have the 
msys-coreutils package - basically.

You won't be able to compile coreutils under Windows without such a 
POSIX compatibility layer library. Though it would be interesting to 
statically link them against the msys-1.0 library to get stand-alone 
versions of the utils. But I have been told this is not possible by 
design...

  - Fabian