Thanks Shawn, Dmitri. I have always used GitBash for building on Windows and it has never failed me. Just wanted to report that 8.11.1 builds fine too on Windows with GitBash. I was just curious to know more in case I am missing something.
Thanks, Rahul On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 7:06 PM dmitri maziuk <dmitri.maz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2022-06-03 3:53 PM, Shawn Heisey wrote: > ... > > I once tried the 8.x build on Windows 10 using Command Prompt. It > > failed because it couldn't run perl. And I suspect there may be other > > requirements easily satisfied by a Linux install that are not typically > > found on Windows. > > On windows 10 installing WSL2 and spinning up a debian VM is a fairly > painless process. > > (Unless you need firewire or some other drivers that Microsoft thinks > no longer exist and you're locked to an old build that still has them > but doesn't support WSL2.) > > Dima > >
