On Sun, 2023-01-15 at 16:39 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I'm guessing that Christian asked Savannah to produce a snapshot of > the Git repository (it has such abilities for every project), and > that gives a tarball where some files you generate when tarring a > release aren't present.
I see. The snapshots created by Savannah are simply copies of the current HEAD of the Git repository: it's the same as cloning the repository except you don't need Git itself. For these types of snapshots you must build it as if it were a Git clone, following the instructions in the README.git file. See the section: Building from Git for Windows http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/README.git?h=4.4#n163
