How to build git-credential-wincred?

[M Hickford]

Hi. Is anyone familiar with how to build credential helper
git-credential-wincred [1]?

I successfully built the rest of Git in Visual Studio 2022 using CMake
[2] but this didn't include git-credential-wincred.

-M

[1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/tree/main/contrib/credential/wincred
[2] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/blob/main/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

the CMake definition indeed has no option to build anything in `contrib`,
the only `contrib`-related thing it does is to copy files from
`contrib/completion/` that are required (!!!) for Git's test suite to
pass.

FWIW this is how we build it in Git for Windows:
https://github.com/git-for-windows/MINGW-packages/blob/6ffeea3defc2bdb27aa681a35cffc99012339d41/mingw-w64-git/PKGBUILD#L184-L189
It requires the Git for Windows SDK (see
https://gitforwindows.org/#download-sdk) which is a friendly fork of MSYS2
(for more information about that, see
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/blob/HEAD/ARCHITECTURE.md#a-software-distribution-really).

Ciao,
Johannes

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