mingw utilties question

[Mumit Khan]

Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> writes:
> I've been meaning to ask if there are reliable mingw versions of tar.exe
> and gzip.exe that could be used in setup.exe.  I tried downloading a gzip.exe
> but it kept dying with pipe errors.  I couldn't find a non-cygwin tar anywher
> e.
> 
> Anyone have any pointers?

I have a complete set, but not really Mingw, but statically linked against
glibc 2.1.2. The advantage is that it's all "binary mode", so that all the
usual problems with binary pipes etc are not an issue.

It'll choke on symlinks (it'll *try* to copy, but fails most of the time
due to ordering issues in archives, something that is quite well known),
and for hardlinks create real ones if it can or just copy if it can't
(depending on underlying FS type).

Unfortunately, the sizes are large due to static linking (tar is about
430k and gzip 330k).

Would that work?

ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/private/gw32/

and get the targz-static-gw32.zip file.

I can probably come up with Mingw version as well without too much trouble
which will have the advantage of smaller sizes.

Regards,
Mumit