does not build on Windows 7: getting link errors

[ptschip]

Generating Code...
LD [C:/WinDDK/7600.16385.1/bin/x86/x86/link.exe] mia/ip_fw2.obj mia/ip_fw_pfil
.obj mia/ip_fw_sockopt.obj mia/ip_fw_dynamic.obj mia/ip_fw_table.obj mia/ip_fw_l
og.obj mia/radix.obj mia/in_cksum.obj mia/ip_dummynet.obj mia/ip_dn_io.obj mia/i
p_dn_glue.obj mia/dn_heap.obj mia/dn_sched_fifo.obj mia/dn_sched_wf2q.obj mia/dn
_sched_rr.obj mia/dn_sched_qfq.obj mia/dn_sched_prio.obj mia/ipfw2_mod.obj mia/b
sd_compat.obj mia/md_win.obj mia/miniport.obj mia/protocol.obj mia/passthru.obj
mia/debug.obj
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 9.00.30729.207
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

LINK : warning LNK4108: /ALIGN specified without /DRIVER; image may not run
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/release.ob
j'

I really don't see where release.obj is getting built or not build. The file does not exist but I don't know why it would be looking for it under c:/mingw/msys/1.0/ ???

[sgeto]

replace / with - or // in the "linker options" section in kipfw/Makefile to prevent bash from confusing linker flags with directories/files.

[sgeto]

    #linker options
    LDFLAGS  = /MERGE:_PAGE=PAGE /MERGE:_TEXT=.text
    LDFLAGS += /SECTION:INIT,d /OPT:REF /OPT:ICF
    LDFLAGS += /IGNORE:4198,4010,4037,4039,4065,4070,4078,4087,4089,4221
    LDFLAGS += /INCREMENTAL:NO //RELEASE //NODEFAULTLIB //WX
    LDFLAGS += //DEBUG //debugtype:cv,fixup,pdata
    LDFLAGS += /version:6.1 /osversion:6.1 /functionpadmin:5
    LDFLAGS += //safeseh //pdbcompress
    LDFLAGS += /STACK:0x40000,0x1000 //driver /base:0x10000 /align:0x80
    LDFLAGS += /stub:$(DDK)\\lib\\wxp\\stub512.com
    LDFLAGS += /subsystem:native,5.01 /entry:GsDriverEntry@8
    LDFLAGS += /out:$(OBJDIR)/ipfw.sys