From: Konstantin Khomoutov <flatworm@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:30:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Compiling git for Windows
Message-ID: <20140227143010.85055162886495c17a6cb232@domain007.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAHd499Cr2g0MZs2XBCC-zZqjHeffqO0LXoP1ViaFOjQhTuPKzw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:23:35 -0600
Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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