Re: Building on Msys2

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Manuel Collado <mcollado2011@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:43:17 +0100
> 
> The NEWS file of gawk-5.1.0 says:
> 
> "5. MSYS2 is now supported out-of-the-box by configure."

Yes.  The official support for the MinGW port of Gawk doesn't use
MSYS2 (or any of the autoconf tools).

> Is it necessary to install extra Msys/MinGW packages?

No.

> Is it necessary to use the /pc replacement stuff?

Yes.  The build instructions are in README_d/README.pc.  In a
nutshell, you copy the stuff from pc/ to its parent directory, and
then says "make" from the Windows command prompt window.  Note that
the Makefile you copy from pc/ assumes a native Windows port of GNU
Make, not the MSYS2 Make.