“doskey” Scons building error

Question

I'm trying to (cross-)compile node.js and I get this odd error that appears to be coming from scons:

$ make
Waf: Entering directory `C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\Adam\Stuff\node\build'
[51/71] libv8.a: deps\v8\SConstruct -> build\default\libv8.a
'"c:\Program Files\Python27\python.exe" "C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\Adam\Stuff\node\tools/scons/scons.py" -j 1 -C "C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Adam/Stuff/node/build/default/" -Y "C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Adam/Stuff/node/deps/v8" visibility=default mode=release arch=x64 toolchain=gcc library=static '
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ -o obj\release\accessors.o -c -Wall -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wnon-virtual-dtor -pedantic -Wno-long-long -m64 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -DWIN32 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -DWIN32 -Wall -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wnon-virtual-dtor -pedantic -Wno-long-long -m64 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -DWIN32 -fno-strict-aliasing -DV8_TARGET_ARCH_X64 -DENABLE_VMSTATE_TRACKING -DENABLE_LOGGING_AND_PROFILING -DENABLE_DEBUGGER_SUPPORT -IC:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\Adam\Stuff\node\deps\v8\src C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\Adam\Stuff\node\deps\v8\src\accessors.cc
scons: building terminated because of errors.

'doskey' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'doskey' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
scons: *** [obj\release\accessors.o] Error 1

Waf: Leaving directory `C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\Adam\Stuff\node\build'
Build failed:  -> task failed (err #2):
        {task: libv8.a SConstruct -> libv8.a}
DEST_OS: win32
DEST_CPU: x64
Parallel Jobs: 1
Product type: program
make: *** [program] Error 1

My build environment was a Windows 7, using mingw/msys and mingw-w64 tools. I can't even find any reference to doskey in any of the scripts that seem to be running so I'm quite stuck.

Thanks

Answer 1

This question should describe why it is being used. However, doskey is available on my Windows 7 Pro machine so I don't understand why it is not working for you. I'm sure you could pull it off a WinXP machine if you have one available.

If you can find the file, you could always drop it somewhere in your %PATH% and see if it makes a difference?

Alternatively, put a copy of the file in the directory that the build script is being run in.