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Compiling git for Windows

Subject: Compiling git for Windows

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3 messages between Feb 26, 2014 and Feb 27, 2014.

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Robert Dailey· Feb 26, 2014, 18:23 UTC · lore

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.

Philip Oakley· Feb 26, 2014, 19:36 UTC · re: Robert Dailey · lore

Re: Compiling git for Windows

From: "Robert Dailey" <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>

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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.
> --

Try the wiki  https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki

The dev list is at msysgit@googlegroups.com;

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Konstantin Khomoutov· Feb 27, 2014, 10:30 UTC · re: Robert Dailey · lore

Re: Compiling git for Windows

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