Cannot build ksh 1.0.10 with MSYS2/MinGW

[cedricblancher]

We cannot build ksh 1.0.10 with MSYS2/MinGW, bin/package fails like this:
$ (SHELL=/bin/dash ; $SHELL ./bin/package make)
package: /home/ced/mingw_ksh93/ksh: must be in the package root directory tree

[cedricblancher]

Still does not work:

$ export SHELL=/bin/bash.exe ; $SHELL ./bin/package make CC="/usr/bin/gcc -m64 -std=gnu17" PACKAGEROOT="$PWD" HOSTTYPE="msys.i386-64"
package: initialize the /home/ced/work/mingw_ksh93/ksh/arch/msys.i386-64 view
package: update /home/ced/work/mingw_ksh93/ksh/arch/msys.i386-64/bin/mamprobe
package: update /home/ced/work/mingw_ksh93/ksh/arch/msys.i386-64/lib/probe/C/make/probe
package: update /home/ced/work/mingw_ksh93/ksh/arch/msys.i386-64/bin/mamake
cc: fatal error: cannot execute 'cc1': spawn: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

[McDutchie]

Thanks for the report. MSYS2/MinGW is not a system I've ever used. I generally try to avoid Windows as much as possible, but I'm going to have to figure out a way to test it on this system and make it build.

FWIW, Cygwin should work, it's tested every now and then.

[gisburn]

@McDutchie Quick setup via Cygwin shell:
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wget 'https://github.com/msys2/msys2-installer/releases/download/2024-11-16/msys2-x86_64-20241116.exe'
chmod a+x msys2-x86_64-20241116.exe 
./msys2-x86_64-20241116 

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... then in MSYS2 UCRT terminal:
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pacman -S --noconfirm gcc emacs gdb make gettext gettext-devel git subversion flex bison unzip pax tar libiconv-devel ncurses-devel gmp-devel mpfr-devel mpc-devel isl-devel  isl-devel procps-ng libiconv-devel sed time coreutils util-linux grep sed clang base-devel

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Does that help ?

[cedricblancher]

@McDutchie Any updates?

[McDutchie]

No one is currently getting paid for developing ksh, and I don't know when I'll have the time, opportunity and inclination to sit down with a Windows 10 box and figure this out. I don't have one in the house. So, unless someone else figures this out before me, you're going to have to be patient.