Johannes Schindelin

There is an active PR to compile Git for Windows for ARM64 using MSVC, and the plan was to drop the executables into an i686 version of Git for Windows...

Git for Windows can indeed be compiled without MSYS2/Cygwin, at least with the upcoming CMake support. Without CMake support, it would require a GNU make, I think.

@driver1998 feel free to test this hypothesis... :grinning:

> the cygwin runtime is not compatible with ARM And [this mail on Dec 8, 2021 from the Cygwin lead](https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2021-December/250156.html) suggests that probably won't change any time soon (and they'd...

> @dscho could we try switching the default in this repo, or should we do it in a downstream patch first? Let's do it here, by dropping (reverting) https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/commit/b74f834aa69dc0b188d1b971fbd2014f5f4593bc

> > I'll enable it in the MSYS2 packaging CIs first to make sure it doesn't break anything package building related. > > I didn't see any issues there. >...

Is this maybe addressing bugs in Cygwin directly?

> In case one of you guys think this should be patched upstream, please go ahead. I won't have the time (and even if I had the time, I don't...

Another fix was needed, and Git for Windows v2.36.1 was released with it (we had to pull an intermediate state of the Cygwin runtime because Git v2.36.1 had been released...

> I am experiencing the same issue and can confirm that the workaround helps. Can you try (temporarily) replacing your `/usr/bin/msys-2.0.dll` with [Git for Windows' variant](https://github.com/git-for-windows/git-sdk-64/blob/HEAD/usr/bin/msys-2.0.dll) and verify that it...