Re: MinGW build environment for Git

["Dmitry Kakurin" <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>]

On 7/31/07, Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> 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?

-Dmitry