On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 5:54 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > I am curious: how do you build Git? I ask because I build Git on Windows > many times a day, and I did not encounter any link problems. My end goal is to build static native Windows Git via Cygwin and the mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core package. This is certainly possible but definitely not considered in the current Git codebase. I have a patch to config.mak.uname coming as well.