Artifact 4b3ff889f8ded19a3d524e0ac09325bb75f324ca

File win32.txt part of check-in [46f96301f1] - Forgot to remove path problems from 'Outstading Issues' by jnc on 2007-09-22 06:49:47.

Notes: Porting fossil to win32
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Setting up my build environment:
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  Install:
    MinGW 5.1.3
    MSYS  1.0.10
  
  Download/compile/install zlib (configure --prefix=/mingw)
  Download/compile/install tclsh (configure --prefix=/) (for tests)
  
  All commands were issued in the MSYS shell, not a cmd.exe



Outstanding Issues:
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* server is totally non-functional - #if/#end'd out of the code
* remote network operations are reporting: can't resolve host name: xyz
  
  Winsock must be initialized before using:
  
      WSADATA info;
      if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(1,1), &info) != 0){
        fossil_panic("can't initialize winsock");
      }



Commands status:
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add               OK
cgi               Not tested
changes           OK
checkout          BAD #1
clean             OK
clone             Local Only #2
close             OK
commit            OK (not tested with gpg signing yet)
config            OK
deconstruct       OK
del               OK
descendents       OK
diff              OK
extra             OK
help              OK
http              Not Tested
info              OK
leaves            OK
ls                OK
merge             OK
new               OK
open              OK
pull              BAD #2
push              BAD #2
rebuild           OK (didn't have a corrupt file to try on though)
redo              BAD #3
rm                OK
server            BAD #2,#4
status            OK
sync              BAD #2
timeline          OK
tkdiff            OK
undo              OK
update            OK
user capabilities OK
user default      OK
user list         OK
user new          OK
user password     OK

#1 Have a repo where I removed a file. I did a fossil checkout 123abc,
   which is the last version that had the file. The file does not
   appear. fossil checkout --force 123abc does things, but still the
   file does not appear.
   
   Make a new dir, fossil open ../repo.fsl && fossil checkout 123abc and
   the file appears.
   
   Is that normal operation?

#2 No socket operations are functioning yet

#3 In test1/ I edited a file, test2/ I updated, type file.txt changes
   were there. I then did fossil undo file.txt. The changes were gone
   and fossil status said I had edited file.txt. A fossil redo did not
   print anything to the screen and the changes for file.txt are not
   in the file. fossil status still reports that the file was edited.
   There was no commit/update or any other command inbetween these
   actions.

#4 There were various difficulties in this function beyond simple socket
   problems. The major one being fork. This will probably be the last
   command to be functional in fossil on windows.