On mingw, there is a compilation error:
$ make
...
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../tta/C -I../../../tta/C/main
-I../../../tta/C/parsetexi -I../../../tta/C/convert
-I../../../tta/C/structuring_transfo -I../../../tta/C
-DDATADIR=\"/usr/local/mingw64/share\" -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/mingw64/etc\"
-I../../../tta/gnulib/lib -I../gnulib/lib -D_WIN32_WINNT=_WIN32_WINNT_WINXP
-I/usr/local/mingw64/include -Wall -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__
-D_GNU_SOURCE -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wimplicit-function-declaration
-fdebug-prefix-map=/mnt/share/maint/perl.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/perl-5.26.1-1
-fdebug-prefix-map=/mnt/share/maint/perl.x86_64/src/perl-5.26.1=/usr/src/debug/perl-5.26.1-1
-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector-strong -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g
-O2 -MT convert/libtexinfo_convert_la-html_prepare_converter.lo -MD -MP -MF
convert/.deps/libtexinfo_convert_la-html_prepare_converter.Tpo -c -o
convert/libtexinfo_convert_la-html_prepare_converter.lo `test -f
'convert/html_prepare_converter.c' || echo
'../../../tta/C/'`convert/html_prepare_converter.c
libtool: compile: x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../tta/C
-I../../../tta/C/main -I../../../tta/C/parsetexi -I../../../tta/C/convert
-I../../../tta/C/structuring_transfo -I../../../tta/C
-DDATADIR=\"/usr/local/mingw64/share\" -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/mingw64/etc\"
-I../../../tta/gnulib/lib -I../gnulib/lib -D_WIN32_WINNT=_WIN32_WINNT_WINXP
-I/usr/local/mingw64/include -Wall -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__
-D_GNU_SOURCE -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wimplicit-function-declaration
-fdebug-prefix-map=/mnt/share/maint/perl.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/perl-5.26.1-1
-fdebug-prefix-map=/mnt/share/maint/perl.x86_64/src/perl-5.26.1=/usr/src/debug/perl-5.26.1-1
-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector-strong -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g
-O2 -MT convert/libtexinfo_convert_la-html_prepare_converter.lo -MD -MP -MF
convert/.deps/libtexinfo_convert_la-html_prepare_converter.Tpo -c
../../../tta/C/convert/html_prepare_converter.c -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC -o
convert/.libs/libtexinfo_convert_la-html_prepare_converter.o
../../../tta/C/convert/html_prepare_converter.c:25:18: fatal error: glob.h: No
such file or directory
#include <glob.h>
^
compilation terminated.
make[4]: *** [Makefile:3691:
convert/libtexinfo_convert_la-html_prepare_converter.lo] Fehler 1
For comparison, version 7.1.90 did compile on mingw (but had test failures) [1].
Maybe all you need is to request the Gnulib module 'glob' [2] ?
Bruno
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2024-10/msg00172.html
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/glob.html
