Build in msys2 shell fails

[Gene Smith]

On 8/19/2016 8:47 PM, Gene Smith wrote:
> Installed msys2 on window 10 as recommended. The various "pacman" steps
> were not quite as straight forward as described on the msys2 website.
> However, I think I got it installed OK and it runs and all packages are
> up to date (including the additional packages required by RSB). Also
> installed the windows version of python2.
>
> However, when I run (in MSYS shell) a build with the same command line
> as on cygwin or linux but with the added options --without-python and
> --jobs=none, I immediately see this:
>
> error: failed to load Windows host support
>
> This is coming from builder file .../sb/options.py and indicates that it
> thinks the "os.name" is "nt".
>
> I tried installing and using python3 and see the same thing.
>
> Also, running a MINGW64 shell does the same thing with both python
> versions. (No path entries to cygwin code are present.)
>
> Am I doing something wrong? (Haven't tried the msys python package which
> the documentation says doesn't work with RSB.)
>
> -gene

Don't know if this will go all the way, but after doing this the build 
has now started. Building binutils now...:

gene at hplt MINGW64 
/c/Users/gene/development/rtems/src/rtems-source-builder/rtems
$ pacman -S  mingw-w64-x86_64-python2

-gene