From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: MinGW build environment for Git Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:44:19 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <46B016FC.4050005@trolltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Marius Storm-Olsen , git@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Kakurin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 01 12:45:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IGBhS-0008Ju-3V for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:45:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756152AbXHAKop (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 06:44:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753531AbXHAKop (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 06:44:45 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:58035 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756016AbXHAKoo (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 06:44:44 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 Aug 2007 10:44:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp031) with SMTP; 01 Aug 2007 12:44:42 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/wg2tbQQbwC1pElovC76uoi94Im6UD69unkL9JVS i3ocYfg+kU5oTV X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote: > On 7/31/07, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > > Dmitry Kakurin said the following on 30.07.2007 01:14: > > > I want to be able to build MinGW port of Git on Windows. I've tried > > > to follow steps in README.MinGW to setup this environment myself > > > (install MinGW, MSys, ZLib etc.) but after wasting a lot of time > > > with no result I give up. So, could somebody please just pkzip > > > their environment (everything required) and share the zip file with > > > me (privately or publicly)? I also think that an even better idea > > > is to create a new Git repository with MinGW build environment. > > > This will make contributing to MinGW port of Git MUCH easier. > > > > Aaron has done this, and you can find the link on his blog, here: > > http://www.ekips.org/cgi-bin/aaron.cgi/2007/02/27 > > I've downloaded and installed it. But I could not make it work :-(. > First I had this problem: > $ make > GIT_VERSION = 1.5.3.GIT > * new build flags or prefix > CC convert-objects.o > gcc.exe: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory > make: *** [convert-objects.o] Error 1 > > Then I've copied cc1.exe and some others from > C:\mingw4git\libexec\gcc\mingw32 into /bin. > > $ make > CC convert-objects.o > In file included from cache.h:4, > from convert-objects.c:1: > git-compat-util.h:51:22: sys/wait.h: No such file or directory > > Searching entire (downloaded) tree for wait.h gives nothing. > > 'make configure' does not work: > $ make configure > GEN configure > configure.ac+:4: error: Autoconf version 2.59 or higher is required > configure.ac+:4: the top level > autom4te: /bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 > make: *** [configure] Error 1 > > What do I do now? This looks like you downloaded git.git. Official releases do not have MinGW support yet! You have to get the MinGW port from repo.or.cz: http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw.git Hth, Dscho