> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:36:38 +1100 > From: David Wall <dc_wall****@adsl*****> > > But - I need Mingw/msys to do the building and the source code comes in > Tar.gz format. > > I had a play this arvo and wrote a small batch file that used 7z to > get the tar out of the .tar.gz - then the same 7z to get the files I > needed to edit out of the .tar. There are MinGW ports of the bsdtar program that can unpack a .tar.gz archive directly, so there should be no need for tricks with 7z.