Re: compile error on Windows XP

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Zhang Wei <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:26:53 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I suspect that this is some strange interaction between MSYS and MinGW
> > (you do use MSYS Bash and maybe MSYS Make, right?).  You didn't
> > upgrade any of them together with MinGW, did you?  Maybe you should
> > downgrade back to the older versions, and if MinGW is the only one you
> > upgraded, try an older version, maybe 3.9.
> 
> I uninstalled MSYS completely and use GnuWin32 CoreUtils-5.3.0 instead,
> now it compiles.

Ah, great.  Thanks for working on this.

If you ever need a Windows port of Bash or some other Unixy shell,
there are a few non-MSYS, non-Cygwin ports floating around.  Although
they are generally quite old and sometimes buggy (and thus most of
them cannot run a reasonably elaborate configure script), they should
do fine for running typical commands one finds in Makefile's.