Win32 port?

[Matt McCutchen]

On 9/5/07, Fabian Cenedese <Cenedese at indel.ch> wrote:
> Has anybody ever tried (and most probably failed) to port rsync to Win32?
> I know there are versions built with cygwin and there are also other
> Windows programs that include the rsync algorithm. But neither of them
> make me really happy. The cygwin version is dead slow on my AMD
> 3500+ and the Windows programs all make something differently, can't
> be scripted and/or have an unusable GUI.

It might be worth a try to build rsync on mingw first.  If that works,
I think a mingw version would be easier to maintain than a complete
port in the long term.

Matt