avoid needing mingw to build on windows

It was only used for its shell;  cygwin has a shell.
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Joey Hess 2015-04-20 15:33:13 -04:00
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C:\MINGW\MSYS\1.0\BIN\SH.EXE standalone/windows/build-simple.sh C:\CYGWIN\BIN\SH.EXE standalone/windows/build-simple.sh

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## building it yourself ## building it yourself
To build git-annex from source on Windows, you need to install To build git-annex from source on Windows, you need to install
the Haskell Platform, Mingw, and Cygwin. Use Cygwin to install: the Haskell Platform and Cygwin. Use Cygwin to install these packages:
gcc rsync git wget ssh gnupg gcc rsync git wget ssh gnupg
Once the prerequisites are installed, run: Once the prerequisites are installed, run:
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cd gitannex cd gitannex
build build
Note that git from Cygwin is able to clone git-annex's git repository;
Msysgit cannot due to some characters in filenames.
(To build the git-annex installer, you also need to install the NullSoft (To build the git-annex installer, you also need to install the NullSoft
installer system.) installer system.)