Building Git

We build Git for Windows using an MSys2 based Git for Windows SDK. This SDK can be installed via a net-installer

Installing a build environment

1. Just install the net-installer.

Build Git

1. An initial git clone and make should have already occurred when installing the net-installer.

2. Open the Git for Windows SDK by double clicking either mingw32_shell.bat or mingw64_shell.bat.

3. cd /usr/src/git.

4. Build Git: make.

5. Run the test suite: make test

Build the msys2-⁠runtime

1. Start the MSys (msys2_shell.bat) shell (i.e. not the MinGW 32-bit nor the MinGW 64-bit one).

2. Install the MSys2 Toolchain: pacman -⁠S gcc binutils make.

3. Clone the MSYS2-packages repository: cd /usr/src && git clone https://github.com/git-for-windows/MSYS2-packages.

4. Build the package: makepkg -⁠s.

(You might need to call pacman -S ca-certificates to reinstall that package, it seems that it was not installed properly at least in one MSys2 32-bit setup.)