Re: [Mingw-users] Stand alone file utilities?

[Ian P. <ia...@un...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:ea...@us...]
> 
> > So, question - so far as I can see, these utilities are only
> > distributed as part of msys (correct?) but can they be built as
> stand-alone executables that can run without msys?
> >
> 
> Why without MSYS?

It's not really a big deal, actually, I'm just trying to minimize what I
need to package up with the app. I used to use the unxutils ports but needed
to move away from those because I need something that will run in 64-bit
Vista (they were last updated back in 2003). Moving from those to msys (just
the bits I need) increased the size by a factor of 3, but I can live with
that if I need to.

> > Has anyone ever tried porting tcsh to MinGW?
> 
> Not that I know of.  I did a google
> http://www.google.com/search?q=tcsh+windows+-cygwin and found
> http://www.highend3d.com/downloads/tools/os_utils/89.html you can
> google too.  I also found ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/tcsh/old with some
> bit of trial and error.

Again, I need something that runs in Vista-64 which really means something
that's actively maintained, and the only working tcsh I've found so far is
the Cygwin one. But that Astron site has a 2008 dated version for AMD 64 so
I'll give that a try. Thanks.

And apologies for "hijacking the thread". I had no idea that email headers
included a thread ID.

Ian