Win-GHC with GnuWin32 toolset--Mingw32 replacement

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

> I discovered a possible replacement for these (all running under
> DOS), in the GnuWin32 toolset, at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net .
> The GnuWin32 tools are all Windows-native packaged as DLLs and also
> include some more pervasive tools we were going to replace, such as
> Readline (v5.0) and build tools, including Sed.  With Windows-native
> versions of Perl and Python, we may be able to build without relying
> on any Mingw/Cygwin tools at all.

For what its worth, I tend to use UnixUtils extensively on my system:

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

They are all pretty small, are good enough to be used as replacements
for the GNU versions, and are all compiled natively with Windows CL.

I'm not sure if these will do the kind of things you are after, but I
have used sed/make etc. from this package without any problems.

Thanks

Neil