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Re: Compiling git for Windows

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KKKonstantin Khomoutov <flatworm@users.sourceforge.net>
Date
Feb 27, 2014, 10:30 UTC
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:23:35 -0600 Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Oddly I'm not able to find any instructions on how to build Git for
> Windows. I've done a clone of the repository here:
> 
> https://github.com/msysgit/git
> 
> I did attempt to try doing it myself. I installed 'make' and mingw-gcc
> in Cygwin and attempted 'make' from the git directory but it fails
> immediately (I can post information on the failure if needed, but I'm
> assuming I'm not taking the correct approach).
> 
> Can someone point me to some instructions on how to build Git for
> Windows? Thanks.

https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki/InstallMSysGit and then https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki/WorkingOnMsysGit

You might want to start at the README at https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit and then navigate to the wiki: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki

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