[DotGNU]MinGW and Portable.NET

[Earnie Boyd]

I have just run across this project yesterday when I was googling to 
determine what projects were using MinGW.  I downloaded all of your 
released packages to find out how well I could execute the build 
processes.  I use a MinGW distributed product named MSYS for the build 
environment.  MSYS uses a modified version of Cygwin to provide a 
minimal set of tools whose goal is to allow a typical configure script 
execute to create a Makefile.  It translates paths for the environment 
and arguments when spawning non MSYS processes.

Building treecc-0.2.6 was uneventful, configure --prefix=/mingw && make.

Building pnet-0.5.12 was nearly uneventful, but I had to modify some of 
the Makefiles to add -lws2_32 for the socket library.  The install steps 
have a few missing $(EXEEXT) when removing and creating links via $(LN_S).

I then tried the pnetC-0.5.12 and received no joy as the pnet compiler 
doesn't support spawning with pipes for win32.  What is the status for 
this support?

If you wish to look at MSYS download from 
http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10-rc-2.exe?download

Earnie
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