Re: 'Patch' tool for windows

[Josh Stein <stein@aps.anl.gov>]

FYI - I finally got around to doing this and found (for my installation 
of mingw-get, version 0.4-alpha-1) I had to execute the command as follows:

"mingw-get install msys-patch"


Thanks Andrew


On 11/11/11 11:06 AM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> On 2011-11-11 Josh Stein wrote:
> > Has anyone found an unbundled Patch tool which works properly for Windows?
> Since I happen to know that you have a recent version of MinGW installed, I
> think you should just be able to use the command "mingw-get install patch" to
> install the MSYS version of patch, which I believe will be put into
> C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/bin (the number might be different).  It may also add one or
> two more things but that's all I had to do yesterday to be able to apply a
> Unix patch file on my XP system.
>
> - Andrew