Re: Building Matreshka on Windows

[Maxim Reznik <reznikmm@gmail.com>]

среда, 2 ноября 2016 г., 23:29:17 UTC+2 пользователь Shark8 написал:
> I recently came across Matreshka on this wikipedia page -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Libraries/Database -- when searching for FireBird bindings to Ada... Ada bindings to FireBirs? Whatever.
> 
> Anyway, the user-guide is pretty unhelpful when on a Windows machine -- http://forge.ada-ru.org/matreshka/wiki/Guide -- essentially requiring the whole unix-like environment... so my questions are thus: has anyone gotten it to build on Windows? has anyone gotten it to build WITHOUT Cygwin, MSYS, etc?
> 

You don't need Cygwin nor MSYS to compile matreshka. Just two packages make and coreutils (together less then 10 Mb in size, url in the guide). Just install these two pieces of software. That's all you need to start compilation.

So, yes - it works on windows without any problem. yes - it works WITHOUT Cygwin and MSYS.

What build driver do you prefer? maven, NuGet, chocolately, Web PI or PowerShell? ;)

> PS -- I'd much rather not use Cygwin et al; it adds another layer of tools and idiosyncrasies to the environment.
> 
> PPS -- Why do people think "make" is a good way to build/install anyway? (I tried running it through Borland's make, but no joy -- what else do you expect from a tool developed on/with/for C?)