[CMake] patch on Windows

[Eric Noulard]

2014/1/12 Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles at elpauer.org>:
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> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Rob McDonald <rob.a.mcdonald at gmail.com>
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>> Where does CMake get its patch implementation?
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> It doesn't. It would be great if CMake implemented a "cmake -E patch".
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>> I'm using a patch step with ExternalProject_Add on Windows (and other
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> I am downloading the patch binary from GNUWin32 as a pre-step on Windows.
> Take a look at winstng:
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> https://elpauer.assembla.com/code/winstng/git/nodes/master/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
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> Problem is patch from GNUWin32 does not support Unix line endings (it will
> crash), therefore I am forced to use Windows line endings in every patch
> (unix2dos is your friend).

It seems like tortoiseMerge may apply patch as well:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/517257/how-do-i-apply-a-diff-patch-on-windows
http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/nightly/TortoiseMerge_en/tme-automation.html

Stackoverflow refers to pure python implementation of patch as well:
https://code.google.com/p/python-patch/

I did never tried neither of those two myself though.



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Erk
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