So... Msys2 CRT is a wrapper around POSIX API. Bash uses said POSIX API, mingw-w64 is more geared towards windows API, so to compile it with mingw-w64, you'd have to do some heavy patching to bash to support the windows API.
---- On Sun, 08 Dec 2019 02:24:01 -0800 [email protected] wrote ---- > > I presume it is not possible to build bash using mingw-w64, because > Windows is not a recent enough POSIX system. > > Instead, you must use the MSYS2 GCC to compile bash and link it against > the MSYS2 CRT, not the mingw-w64 CRT. The triplet should look like > `x86_64-pc-msys`. > I was able to compile bash 5.0 with msys2 gcc. Does this mean that gcc has not been completely ported to mingw-w64 gcc. I would like to help so that mingw-w64 also is able to compile bash. Please let me know how can I help in this. Regards, Amit _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
