Dear list readers, As you all might know, i'm using Ruben's version of the toolchain. It's working very well for my needs, and on the side i'm also using MinGW-w64's version of MSYS (The tarball found on the sourceforge page).
i have a quick question about this MSYS environment. i primarily use it because all my scripts are initially made on an unix system, and are also being ran on my Debian machine. i didn't want to go through the hassle of making windows bat scripts, and as i was very happy with MSYS, i just adapted the scripts so they can run on all systems under a POSIX environment. At the time i did that, i was still using MinGW MSYS, and i had access to the wonderful mingw-get command. i had 7zip, git and some other pre-built packages installed. Right now, i have dug over and over on the internet and i find myself facing a dilemma: shall i use "windows" version of these packages (Getting installed to "Program Files" by default, so i would have to update my PATH to include all those), or shall i try to build them myself on top of MinGW-w64 MSYS? For the later case, i tried with 7zip and the source package didn't offer much information nor useful hints about building with MinGW-w64. i'm a bit confused, and would like to hear from you all: what do you usually do, as a rule of thumb, when requiring another package? Is there an un-official (Off-list if needed) where i can get something similar to MinGW-Get, but for the MinGW-w64 version of MSYS (i remember that i was answered that such repository doesn't exists, i'm asking 3 weeks later, and off-list if needed)? Are there plans to make a "more complete" version of the MinGW-w64 MSYS package? Thank you for your time! Pierre. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
