git-secret: Makefile install error 127 when running MINGW64

What are the steps to reproduce this issue?

Open Git Bash (MINGW64) on Windows 10 Pro
Run git clone https://github.com/sobolevn/git-secret.git git-secret
Run cd git-secret
Run make build
Run PREFIX="/usr/local" make install

What happens?

Error 127 shows up:

bn@BENNY-RYZEN MINGW64 /c/dev/projects/git-secret (master)
$ make build
make: Nothing to be done for 'build'.

bn@BENNY-RYZEN MINGW64 /c/dev/projects/git-secret (master)
$ PREFIX="/usr/local" make install
C:/Program Files/Git/usr/bin/sh.exe ./utils/install.sh "C:/Program Files/Git/usr/local"
/usr/bin/sh: C:/Program: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:25: install] Error 127

What were you expecting to happen?

The git-secret tool should be installed successfully.

What versions of software are you using?

Operating system: MINGW64_NT-10.0-19042 BENNY-RYZEN 3.1.7-340.x86_64 2020-10-23 13:08 UTC x86_64 Msys (Windows 10 Pro)

git-secret path: no git-secret

git-secret version: no git-secret

git version: git version 2.29.2.windows.3

Shell type and version: GNU bash, version 4.4.23(1)-release (x86_64-pc-msys)

gpg version: gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.25

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 16 (16 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Removes `git-secret` job from `make` Closes #722 — committed to sobolevn/git-secret by sobolevn 3 years ago
Removes `git-secret` job from `make` (#723) Closes #722 — committed to sobolevn/git-secret by sobolevn 3 years ago

Most upvoted comments

Thanks a lot, @bennycode! Would you be interested in helping us setting up windows CI? 🙏

@ffflorian can you help with adding Windows to the test setup? We could start getting the linting job to run.

Goal is that we can execute make install on a Windows machine. I was using MINGW64 on my Windows system to have all the build tools necessary. There even is a GitHub Action which helps setting up MINGW64: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/setup-msys2

bennycode on Oct 21, 2021

Hey @sobolevn, I am very happy that you haven’t let me down and that you want to create a pleasant user experience for Windows users. I will think about how to extend your CI setup to include Windows in the testing matrix. 💭

For now, I just want to confirm that I can install “git-secret” just fine when starting my Git Bash with administrator privileges (to get write permissions to “‘C:/Program Files/Git/usr/local”):

Here is everything that it takes:

git clone git@github.com:sobolevn/git-secret.git
cd git-secret
make build
PREFIX="/usr/local" make install

Now that my problem is resolved, I am closing this issue. See you in another PR! 😀

bennycode on Oct 19, 2021