On 2/23/2012 3:50 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
Both the "MSYS Makefiles" and "MinGW Makefiles" generators have worked
for me for a fairly recent version (20110802) of MinGW + MSYS
installed with the automatic installer. For the latter case I renamed
sh.exe to something else to keep sh.exe off the PATH. To answer the
original poster that rename (rather than manipulating the PATH)
allowed me to keep bash.exe and other useful MSYS tools used in the
PLplot test suite on the PATH.
N.B. these good results were for the wine version of Windows rather
than the Microsoft version, but I doubt something would work on the
wine platform that did not work on Microsoft Windows. Of course,
there are still plenty of things that work on Microsoft Windows that
do not work on wine, but typically those differences (which continue
to be chased down and fixed by the wine developers) tend to be
important only for high-end applications as opposed to relatively
low-level build tools such CMake, MinGW, and MSYS.
Ok. I have been using the manual install from tarballs since 2001; it
has worked reasonably well on everything from Win95 to Win7.
My main problems with this platform have to do with the FSF's
elimination of the fork emulation in 2002 (negative interaction in
licensing between GPL and AT&T, the resulting binaries are not very
distributable according to FSF).
Kenneth
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