1The Steps of Build Git with VS2008 2 31. You need the build environment, which contains the Git dependencies 4 to be able to compile, link and run Git with MSVC. 5 6 You can either use the binary repository: 7 8 WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/msvcgit.git 9 Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/msvcgit.git 10 Zip: http://repo.or.cz/w/msvcgit.git?a=snapshot;h=master;sf=zip 11 12 and call the setup_32bit_env.cmd batch script before compiling Git, 13 (see repo/package README for details), or the source repository: 14 15 WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/gitbuild.git 16 Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/gitbuild.git 17 Zip: (None, as it's a project with submodules) 18 19 and build the support libs as instructed in that repo/package. 20 212. Ensure you have the msysgit environment in your path, so you have 22 GNU Make, bash and perl available. 23 24 WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git 25 Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/msysgit.git 26 Zip: http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git?a=snapshot;h=master;sf=zip 27 28 This environment is also needed when you use the resulting 29 executables, since Git might need to run scripts which are part of 30 the git operations. 31 323. Inside Git's directory run the command: 33 make common-cmds.h 34 to generate the common-cmds.h file needed to compile git. 35 364. Then build Git with the GNU Make Makefile in the Git projects root 37 make MSVC=1 38 39Done!