Working on restoring functionality for latest bitcoin releases

[MSFTserver]

ive made some progress restoring functionality for bitcoins latest releases, still having some trouble if anyone would like to help. i think ive got most the dependencies updated it passes autogen and configure just fine last issues arise during the make process with some errors i cant find reference to anywhere

for some reason it seems like its trying to pass -f option to windres during the check @test -f $(WINDRES) i dont see where -f is being passed to windres at all and this seems to be my last issue im really just stuck with no solution...

config.log

even tried removing that check and it still fails on that line with same error somehow

heres what i have going on so far
https://github.com/MSFTserver/easywinbuilder

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[MSFTserver]

looking into msys2 as that is mingw and cygwins predecessor, alot easier and more POSIX linux functionality and tons of included libs