Building host tools on Windows

[Bin Meng]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 9:50 PM Martin Bonner <martingreybeard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am trying to build the host tools on Windows, and I have hit a road
> block.  Specifically, I get the output:
>   HOSTCC  tools/mkeficapsule
> tools/mkeficapsule.c:18:10: fatal error: uuid/uuid.h: No such file or
> directory
>    18 | #include <uuid/uuid.h>
>
> Steps so far:
> Download latest msys
> Double upgrade with "pacman -Syu"
> pacman -S gcc make bison diffutils openssl-devel
> pacman -S git
> git clone from denx.de
> pacman -S flex (because make complained "flex was missing"
>
> Now I have the above error.  I am not familiar with MSYS packages - I have
> tried "e2fsprogs" and "uuid-dev" but neither are found.  Which package do I
> need to include?

Please do:

pacman -S libgnutls-devel libuuid-devel

as what is done in the CI.

Regards,
Bin