Hello, mingw.h defines a preprocessor macro main(), so that it can wrap the original function and hoook into initialization. The real main() function can have different types of its second parameter (char**, const char**, char*[]). It is not easy to match the type and gcc issues a const warning. My patch fixes that. There were solutions for the same issue published ([1], [2]), but none of them appeared in junio/pu. This new solution should be more future proof, as it modifies only compat/mingw.h; the *.c files can have any of the types mentioned above. I promise to take care of the integration into msysGit if this patch gets accepted. To make it easier, I'm submitting a patch that has been part of msysGit for 3 years. Karsten Blees (1): Win32: move main macro to a function Stepan Kasal (1): mingw: avoid const warning compat/mingw.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ compat/mingw.h | 17 ++++++----------- 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) -- 1.9.2.msysgit.0.496.g23aa553 [1] a hack to fix the warning, by Pat Thoyts, in msysGit since 1.8.5.2.msysgit.0 (Dec 2013): https://github.com/msysgit/git/commit/6949537a [2] more elgant fix: From: Marat Radchenko <marat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:12:02 +0400 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/247535 -- 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