Git instaweb using mongoose and msysGit

Monday, 12 October 2009 by alexandrul
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Requirements

Mongoose setup

Rename mongoose-2.8.exe to mongoose4instagit.exe and place it in any folder at your choice, in my case: k:\dev\tools\mongoose\mongoose4instagit.exe

Gitweb setup

In a msysGit shell run the following commands to build gitweb.cgi in case it’s not already present (like after running make clean in /git folder):

cd /git
make gitweb/gitweb.cgi

Next, extract CGI.pm archive content, and copy the content of the lib subfolder to /lib/perl5/site_perl, keeping the folder structure:
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