I use Magit with following conditions.
- OS: 64bit Windows 10 version 20H2.
- Emacs: master branch of git repository, built with MSYS2, installed in
C:\Emacs - Magit: master branch of git repository, built with MSYS2,
BUILD_MAGIT_LIBGIT=false - Ghub: master branch of git repository, built with MSYS2
- Transient: master branch of git repository, built with MSYS2
- With-Editor: master branch of git repository, built with MSYS2
- dash.el: master branch of git repository
- treepy.el: master branch of git repository
As is explained currently I build Magit with BUILD_MAGIT_LIBGIT=false. So git is used as backend. But I took it into my head to use libegit2 with Magit and cloned its git repository.
There was no problem with building libegit2. By simply execute make at the top of source tree, libegit2.dll, libgit.elc and libgit-autoloads.el were created. So I installed libgit.el, libgit.elc and libgit-autoloads.el to C:\Emacs\share\emacs\site-lisp and libegit2.dll to C:\Emacs\bin. Next I rebuilt and reinstalled Magit with BUILD_MAGIT_LIBGIT=true. After that I restarted Emacs and started Magit with M-x magit. Then Magit successfully started but it still used git as backend.
So would someone please explain how to use libegit2 with Magit?