Re: [PATCH] Silence compiler warnings with MinGW64

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
> Cc: GavinSmith0123@gmail.com,  bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 13:22:46 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > The only Windows-specific issue I'm aware of is that the 'configure'
> > command should point to the native MS-Windows port of Perl, not to the
> > MSYS Perl.
> 
> That's true, as long as you want to build from a tarball.  If you want
> to build from git, you have to install other stuff like:
> 
>   automake-wrapper
>   msys2-runtime-devel
>   libtool
>   man-db
>   help2man

Texinfo doesn't have an INSTALL.REPO file or something to that
effect.  README-hacking might be it, but it seems to be notes by
developers for themselves.  Gavin's call, I'd say.

> Maybe the biggest issue is that the build process requires wait.h which
> is part of msys2-runtime-devel.

Why on Earth is a system header included only in msys2-runtime-devel?

Also, is msys2-runtime-devel about building MSYS2 programs or MinGW
programs?  If the latter, it shouldn't be needed for your attempts to
build a MinGW port.