2012/5/15 MARTIN Pierre <[email protected]>
> 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.
>
Do not try to build MSYS programs yourself. It's very nontrivial (if not
impossible except for those who know exactly how it works) and a waste of
time.
>
> 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)?
>
If MSYS does not provide something you need, either go for Cygwin or
cross-compile from Linux.
>
> Are there plans to make a "more complete" version of the
> MinGW-w64 MSYS package?
>
The MinGW-w64 MSYS package is just a collection of the MinGW.org MSYS
packages. If something is missing in the MinGW-w64 package, that's because
I forgot to put it in. Otherwise, you're out of luck and it doesn't exist.
If you like the mingw-get stuff, use that. You can set MSYS up to use any
toolchain anyways (just set PATH accordingly).
Ruben
>
> Thank you for your time!
> Pierre.
>
>
>
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