MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote:
> See this howto
> http://www.fltk.org/articles.php?L598
I've never used mingw, but I went over to http://www.mingw.org
to have a look to see what the deal is.
Not sure how things used to be done, but it seems more complicated now;
when I go to their download page, it takes me to:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/
..and it's easy to see 'MSYS' (minumum system) and 'MinGw' (Minimum
Gnu/Windows).
But what to do from there is unclear.
According to Robert's page on mingw/msys + fltk:
http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/#getsoft
..I take it from the "Option 2" section that there used to be a separate
.exe for MinGw and MSYS, and you'd run each to install that collection
of tools.
But when I click on those 'MSYS' and 'MinGw' links on the sourceforge
page,
I just get giant lists of files, and it's not at all clear what to do.
Feeling lost, I then looked over here:
http://mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started
..and after being a little taken aback by browsing comments (!),
the above page referred me over here:
http://mingw.org/wiki/InstallationHOWTOforMinGW
..and that spans out to a whole bunch of stuff; download the mingw-get
installer, tweak the PATH, then use that tool to get the other stuff
based on the release notes; gcc, mingwrt, w32api, binutils, make, gdb..
Sounds like it used to be a lot easier; download and run two exe's,
and you're up with a compiler and shell environment. Today, I'm not so
sure.
Has anyone successfully installed mingw/msys lately (last 6 months),
and if so, maybe describe the 'shortcut' through the apparent maze?
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