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Installing cygwin subversion?

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saratoga:

--- Quote from: tatsudoshi on April 27, 2011, 03:12:25 PM ---Many have told me that but I have my reasons and all seems to depend on how often I am going to compile. I haven't yet done one yet so don't know the compile time but if it becomes a hassle I will move to a linux environment but for now this was faster for me to set up since I already have a dev vm running.

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Setting up an ubuntu image is so much faster then trying to setup cygwin you probably could have already done it several times over.  

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: tatsudoshi on April 27, 2011, 03:12:25 PM ---for now this was faster for me to set up since I already have a dev vm running.

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- download a prebuild ubuntu / whateverlinuxdistroyoulike VM
- import it in VMware / VirtualBox
- start it
- run rockboxdev.sh to build the toolchain
- checkout Rockbox sources and you're ready to go

Way simpler and faster than using Cygwin. Besides, most information on the Rockbox website assumes you're using Linux, so it's just ... easier.

There's also a difference between using a Windows svn client and a Cygwin one: subversion does line ending translation (depending on file properties). I don't know how svn in Cygwin 1.7 behaves but I assume that uses Unix line endings while Windows uses DOS. This can lead to problems so when running Cygwin I'd always prefer using the native (as in environment native, not host OS native) client.

tatsudoshi:
Ok 'nuf with the "this is how you get a linus dev vm"! I know already, respect that I don't need another vm at this point for christ sake.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: tatsudoshi on April 28, 2011, 12:00:03 PM ---Ok 'nuf with the "this is how you get a linus dev vm"! I know already, respect that I don't need another vm at this point for christ sake.

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If you don't want advice why are you asking at all? If you can't stand people giving you some advice you don't like why are you asking in the first time? If you dismiss peoples advice this way do you expect getting support in the future?

paulheu:
If the guy wants to wait for cygwin to finish compiling while a virtualbox/ubuntu system is done three times over let him  ::)

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