[Lazarus] Build Lazarus + MINGW32

[Henry Vermaak]

On 01/06/12 16:55, Juha Manninen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com
> <mailto:henry.vermaak at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     MinGW doesn't have a shell.  Do you mean MSYS?
> 
> 
> Maybe. The icon on Windows says "Git Bash", but the window title says
> MINGW32.
> Git is from here:  https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit

Ah, right.  I know that git for windows comes with its own msys
installation.  I don't know how it differs from the stock msys.

> I try to build Lazarus trunk. FPC 2.6.0 is installed and it works ok.
> I was able to build Lazarus at my home Windows after installing "Git Bash".
> I don't know what is different here. Maybe I must start cleaning the path.

Hmm, hard to tell.  Safest way in windows to build things is from a
batch file, where you explicitly set the path, so that it's not
influenced by the system path.  At least in my experience.

Henry