Re: Tools under Windows

[Howard Chu]

BRM wrote:

> I tried building a little environment to allow the
> scripts to run. I got it to detect them, and execute
> them, but then ran into the problem that Perl has
> cmd.exe hard-coded instead of referencing %COMSPEC%
> (like it should) so any script it tries to execute
> after the primary one won´t run since cmd.exe is
> stored in %WINDIR%\System32 and I can´t replace it. 
>
> I´m taking a look at Msys/MingW now. Its worked best
> so far - though a script is failing. I got it to run
> by running the VC build environment (e.g. vcvars.bat)
> and then running the msys environment (msys.bat) to
> enter into the msys shell.
>
> Thanks for the tip on cccl. I´ll be sure to look into
> that too; may be its a combination of the two.

Yes, we use Msys/MinGW for our Windows distributions. I just added a 
"call <path>\vcvars.bat" into msys.bat so that gets set up properly. We 
also use cccl, although with some additional customization.

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