See my reply at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-dev/RBJbuxqM1OQ
On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 1:43:27 PM UTC-7, Sayeed Tasnim wrote: > > Hi, > > > I’m trying to build Julia from source in Windows. I’m following the > instructions described in the README.windows.md here: > > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/README.windows.md > > > However, I’m getting stuck on step 6.iv where I begin the build. I get > the following error in msys: > > > > $ make -j 4 > > /home/t-satasn-win8/julia/Make.inc:432: *** "cannot build julia with > msys-target compilers. please see the README.windows document for > instructions on setting > > up mingw-w64 compilers". Stop. > > > I noticed that the mingw-builds installer doesn’t correctly install and > quits with error message “ERROR res”. It claims it installed > successfully but there are barely any files in there. Instead, I > downloaded from the source and unzipped it and directly moved it to my C:\ > drive. I have also tried using the MinGW-w64 installer and using a newer > 4.9.2 version, but that didn’t work either. > > > Would anyone be able to help me on this problem? Thanks! >
