Re: [Bug-tar] need to build a Windows tar with no cywin1.dll dependency

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 02 December 2009 13:40:33 Mike Maki wrote:
> I've been looking at how to do this, but haven't found out how to make a
> tar.exe that will run in a dos cmd shell. Do I need to compile on a
> non-cygwin system using non-gnu compiler? The last thing I want to do is
> use MS VCC. I'm required to update to a recent version of tar.exe (we
> ship 1.12 now and would like to ship 1.21 or better). Thanks,

use mingw ... in fact, it looks like they already host a pre-compiled gnu tar
-mike

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