From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 19:41:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Possible minor bug in Git
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1902072040360.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <20190206221759.338-1-g@evil.localdomain>

Hi Giuseppe,

On Wed, 6 Feb 2019, Giuseppe Crinò wrote:

> I wanted to have a look at the bug, and I can correctly reproduce it using version 2.20.1.windows.1.
> 
> To start to even think of fixing this bug I need to build the source for Windows, but I got lost on how to do that.

Does this help?

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Building-Git

Ciao,
Johannes

> 
> Is it correct that I should cross-compile from a POSIX system (GNU/Linux), using x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc and Gnulib to produce a static executable?
> 
> Am I missing something? How does people here build for Windows?
> 
> Giuseppe
>