Re: Can I build gnuwin32-patch with Visual Studio 6/7/or 8, and if yes, how?

Hi Eric

> I might as well start off answering my own question...
> 
> By request from the rest of the team I've stopped using
> cygwin along with moving to Vista.  My Cygwin tools were
> setup to automatically convert cr-lf files to lf internally,
> so Unix files were loaded automatically.
> 
> The patch files had Unix line-ends, not Windows line-ends,
> so the non-cygwin patch.exe wasn't accepthing them.  Unfortunately
> it wasn't detecting that situation, just crashing.
> 
> Workaround: manually convert the patch files, and rebuild.
> 
> - Eric
>
I had analogue problems when I built the Vim Editor. Instead of
converting the patches from unix to dos file format, I successfully
applied the command line switch --binary when calling patch.exe.

With kind regards

Mathias


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