windows bat file to build JSX

[shibukawa]

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[kazuho]

Thank you for the PR.

Code in the PR states that https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ is required. My understanding is that make is bundled with msysgit. Is there a reason not to use make?

[shibukawa]

msysgit doesn't include development tools. make is not in the distribution (I checked 1.8.4 and 1.9.0).

[kazuho]

Thank you for checking that.

I am not inclined to merge this PR as is due to the following reasons.

• having copy-pasted code for various environments is not a good idea
• proposed PR only covers a small portion of the build process; it does provide a way to run the equivalent of make test or make bootstrap-server etc., and thus IMO is a incomplete to be considered as a development environment for Windows

My understanding is that users may install jsx on Windows using npm and they can also install make to develop JSX. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[shibukawa]

I made this script to test issue #316. If the fix would be published (it seems not to be published yet), the priority weill be low.

It is a first version. In future, I will find other Winows issues, I will create other target too.

[kazuho]

Understood, though I would advise to implement the tests as part of the test suite (instead of copy-pasted build script) so that we could automatically detect regressions.

Regarding the next release, I would like to wait for #309 get finished, since I do not want to occasionally introduce incompatibilities in the toolchain (and we have already merged #313 that does this).