[Lazarus] Build Lazarus + MINGW32

[Marco van de Voort]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:50:49PM +0300, Juha Manninen wrote:
> I tried to "make all" for at my work Windows machine. I have git and
> MINGW32 unix shell environment installed.
> The build fails as shown below. The problematic line is clearly this:
>   sh: C:\Program: No such file or directory
> For some reason "sh" is started and it does not understand spaces in paths.
> The interesting thing is that I use normal Windows cmd, not the MINGW32
> shell.
> If I test in MINGW32 shell, it gives the same error.

> "$ which make" in MINGW32 shell says (correctly) :
>   /c/FPC/2.6.0/bin/i386-Win32/make

FPC make is mingw shell, which tries to execute "sh" is found.

See http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/buildfaq/#toc-Subsection-1.2.4

(though that is about mingw make calling cygwin sh.exe but same thing. 

> I remember seeing questions of this problem also before. How to solve it?

Don't put sh.exe in your path or in the dir with "make.exe" in it.