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From: Jonathan Protzenko <jonathan.protzenko@gmail.com>
To: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
Cc: Kakadu <kakadu.hafanana@gmail.com>,
	"caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>,
	Wojciech Meyer <wojciech.meyer@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] New version of the binary installer for Windows
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:04:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F733692.2050608@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E51C5B015DBD1348A1D85763337FB6D9C28DE87C@Remus.metastack.local>

Hi,

> I haven't had a go with it, but will try it as soon as possible. However, it sounded from the description as though it offers to install ActiveTCL by downloading it from the internet and running the installer for you.
Absolutely.
> Couldn't it then offer the same for Cygwin? It would simply need to pull down http://cygwin.com/setup.exe and then run:
>
> setup.exe --root=C:\cygwin --download --quiet-mode --no-startmenu --no-desktop --packages=make,mingw64-i686-gcc-g++ >nul 2>&1
>
> which would circumvent all licensing issues, I believe.
That's an excellent suggestion. I'll give it a try!
>
> My own install script also adds git, subversion, patch, m4 and unzip as these are also needed for building various libraries from source. I install g++ because SpiderMonkey has portions written in C++ but you can install mingw64-i686-gcc-core instead if you don't want a C++ compiler.
Do you have it online somewhere?

jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-28 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-28 12:24 Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-28 14:55 ` Kakadu
2012-03-28 15:19   ` Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-28 15:25     ` Wojciech Meyer
2012-03-28 15:38       ` Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-28 15:54       ` David Allsopp
2012-03-28 16:04         ` Jonathan Protzenko [this message]
2012-03-28 17:36       ` Adrien
2012-03-28 20:42         ` Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-29 11:55     ` Kakadu
2012-03-29 12:18       ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-03-29 12:19         ` Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-29 12:27         ` Kakadu
2012-03-28 15:32   ` Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-30 14:15 ` [Caml-list] " Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-30 14:41   ` David Allsopp
2012-03-30 17:38   ` Kakadu
2012-04-03 12:32     ` Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-31  9:34   ` Sylvain Le Gall
2012-04-02  8:03   ` Romain Bardou
2012-04-02  8:21     ` Alain Frisch
2012-04-02  8:23     ` David Allsopp
2012-04-02 11:14     ` Adrien
2012-04-02 11:39       ` Romain Bardou
2012-04-02 11:53       ` Jonathan Protzenko

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