Re: Any active maintainers using MinGW/MSYS?

[Greg Chicares]

[trimmed distribution, as my question is msw-specific]

On 2006-3-8 4:48 UTC, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> I do use MinGW.  MinGW is just the native Windows ports of GNU
> software, such as GCC and Make.  The compiler I use is GCC in its
> MinGW port, but I don't use MSYS and its runtime DLL, so the ported
> programs run natively on Windows.
> 
> The shell I use is an old port of zsh.  It has some bugs (so it will
> not currently run a typical configure script), but it's good enough to
> run Makefile's that need a Unixy shell.

Is that Amol Deshpande's old port of zsh? If it is, then the
toolset you describe is the one I use every day. And in that
case I'd like to ask: can you build 'make' from source using
just that zsh port and MinGW--and, if so, how?