Johannes Sixt wrote: > Just to check I understand correctly: you are running "make MSVC=1" on > cygwin, and then you are using the resulting binaries with the POSIX tools > from cygwin. Yes. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 toshiba 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin $ pwd /home/ramsay/git $ make clean [...output snipped...] $ make MSVC=1 [...975 lines of output snipped; built OK...] $ ./git --version git version 1.6.5.4.g57e8c.MSVC $ See original [PATCH 0/4] email for more... ATB, Ramsay Jones -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html