On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 7:39 PM Volker Rümelin <vr_q...@t-online.de> wrote:
> > > > > Thanks Paolo, > > > > Then only the issue regarding the pcbios/optionrom stuff remains ;-) > > > > make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'multiboot.bin', needed by 'all'. > Stop. > > make: *** [Makefile:171: pc-bios/optionrom/all] Error 2 > > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > > > > Best, > > Howard > > > > Hi Howard, > > one solution for this issue is to uncomment the following line in > msys2_shell.cmd. > > rem To activate windows native symlinks uncomment next line > set MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict > > Then tell Windows 10 it's okay to create symlinks without elevated rights. > Here is a link with a description how to do this. > https://www.joshkel.com/2018/01/18/symlinks-in-windows/ > > I think since commit bf708f3c4a "optionrom: simplify Makefile" > pc-bios/optionrom/Makefile in your build directory has to be a symbolic > link. Without 'set MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict' msys2 ln -s copies the > Makefile instead of creating a symbolic link. > > Thanks Volker! I changed the Windows policy and setting in msys2_shell.cmd. However, I had to edit ming64.ini to uncomment the MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict there as well to get things going. While it is great to have this fix, I can't say I'm really happy with the need to change the Windows policy and to have to fix msys2. The patches Mark referred to and to which I also pointed earlier did fix this problem without changing Windows/Msys2/Mingw64 settings. Best regards, Howard
