Can't compile mintty-3.5.0

[Eliot Moss]

On 4/26/2021 8:00 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I tried to compile mintty-3.5.0,
> but failed with the message:
> 
> windres -c 65001 --preprocessor 'gcc -E -xc -DRC_INVOKED -MMD -MP -DTARGET=x86_64-pc-cygwin -DNDEBUG' res.rc ../bin/cygwin64/res.o
> /bin/sh: gcc -E -xc -DRC_INVOKED -MMD -MP -DTARGET=x86_64-pc-cygwin -DNDEBUG: command not found
> windres: preprocessing failed.
> 
> 
> ====
> How to reproduce
> 
> With source from https://github.com/mintty/mintty at tag: 3.5.0,
> running
> 
>      make
> 
> failed at the point above.
> .
> With mintty-3.5.0-1.cygport,
> running
> 
>      cygport mintty-3.5.0-1.cygport all
> 
> failed at the same point.
> 
> 
> ====
> I've installed these packages as described in a file 'INSTALL'.
> What is still necessary for successful build ?
> 
> ----
> $ uname -svrmo; cygcheck -c gcc-core make
> CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.2.0(0.340/5/3) 2021-03-29 08:42 x86_64 Cygwin
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package              Version        Status
> gcc-core             10.2.0-1       OK
> make                 4.3-1          OK
> ----

windres should be in the binutils package.

EM