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Remove cygwin dependency from msvs generator #7

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Both cygwin and python are currently needed by msvs gyp. Ideally only python 
should be needed. The cygwin dependency makes some potential users 
uncomfortable.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bradnel...@google.com on 26 Apr 2009 at 10:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This will be fairly involved.  Should probably be done in conjunction with 
extracting 
Cygwin in general from the Chromium build.

Original comment by sgk@chromium.org on 6 Aug 2009 at 5:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by sgk@chromium.org on 18 Aug 2009 at 8:10

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Is this still valid? I use gyp without cygwin all the time.

Original comment by mal@chromium.org on 18 Jun 2010 at 3:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Sadly this is still valid.
Gyp has a dependency on the quasi-hermetic copy of cygwin checked into chromium 
third_party.
So when you build, cygwin gets used a little bit.
It's not too much of a problem for chrome, as it requires cygwin for perl and 
gcc -E, and make anyway.
The mozc guys literally last week checked this same copy of cygwin into p4 so 
that they could use gyp inside.
It also leads to a certain amount of escaping madness in the bowels of 
actions/rules, but really the plan with that was to be more strict about what 
an action can look like.

Original comment by bradnelson@google.com on 18 Jun 2010 at 4:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by yukawa@chromium.org on 23 Nov 2013 at 5:31