Thanks! Cygwin helped.
On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 5:33:42 PM UTC-4, Tony Kelman wrote: > > 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! >> >
