From f30300e8774bf9d959d3282040e446c646c5693c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:23:20 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] work around for windows watcher cabal build problem --- doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn b/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn index 18f69ec172..a8cbd6db89 100644 --- a/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn @@ -9,10 +9,15 @@ now! --[[Joey]] * rsync special remotes are known buggy. * Bad file locking, it's probably not safe to run more than one git-annex process at the same time on Windows. -* `git annex watch` builds, but it has not been tested at all. -* `git annex assistant` builds, but has not been tested, and is known - to not download any files. (transferrer doesn't built yet) -* Webapp doesn't build yet. * Ssh connection caching does not work on Windows, so `git annex get` has to connect twice to the remote system over ssh per file, which is much slower than on systems supporting connection caching. +* Webapp doesn't build yet. +* `git annex watch` builds, but does not quite work. +* `git annex assistant` builds, but has not been tested, and is known + to not download any files. (transferrer doesn't built yet) +* watch and assistant cannot be built with cabal. Possibly due to too many + files overflowing command line length limit at link stage. + To build a binary with them: + `ghc --make git-annex.hs -threaded -XPackageImports -DWITH_ASSISTANT=1 -DWITH_WIN32NOTIFY=1` + (should add all the other flags cabal uses)