Help building julia

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So despite using julia for a while I’ve never built it from scatch, only used the binaries. I figure it’s about time.

I tried running following the windows instructions a few weeks ago, but I realized that I ran it make with -j 4 when I only have two cores. The make process failed.

Right now if I try to run make on a julia clone I get this:

C:\Users\hp\julia2\julia>make -j 2
Makefile:2: /Make.inc: No such file or directory
cannot open /VERSION: no such file
find: ‘/base’: No such file or directory
find: ‘/doc’: No such file or directory
find: ‘/examples/clustermanager’: No such file or directory
find: ‘/examples/embedding’: No such file or directory
cannot open /VERSION: no such file
find: ‘/base’: No such file or directory
find: ‘/base’: No such file or directory
find: ‘/stdlib/*/src’: No such file or directory
find: ‘/base/compiler’: No such file or directory
/contrib/relative_path.sh: not found
Makefile:376: Extraneous text after else' directive Makefile:568: Extraneous text after else’ directive
Makefile:577: *** only one `else’ per conditional. Stop.

What do

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PS I’m on windows

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Oh wait nevermind I forgot I had to do this in cygwin. Also had to replace all /r/n with /n. Ok well I’ve started the process we’ll see how this goes.

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I’d recommend you follow the windows instructions precisely, to the letter, without deviation or re-ordering. Only way I’ve ever gotten it to build on Windows.

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