Re: MinGW build environment for Git

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

On 8/1/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> 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
You were right. I was downloading Git under Cygwin and then copied it
to MSys. Somewhere along the way I got confused and copied the wrong
directory.
It works now!
Thank you!

- Dmitry