I use MSYS2 <http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/>here.
The base installation comes with a package manager. You can install
whatever you need from there.
2014/1/2 Jason Curl <[email protected]>
> On 02/01/2014 20:02, Elizabeth Kellner wrote:
> > Hi, I have a new windows 7 machine, but I have a mac and unix
> > background. I'm having trouble getting mingw to a useful state. My
> > goal is to be able to build multiplatform packages, such as ffmpeg, from
> > source on my own machine.
> >
> > I downloaded the built binaries for windows64 (a build from rubenvb was
> > recommended), but there's no shell. I'm not sure how I can run a
> > configure with what I have so far. I have a couple questions from here:
> >
> > Do I need some other library? Or should I try to build the shell using
> > the compiler provided (seems like a real chore)?
> >
> > If I install cygwin, will that shell work with mingw? Do the two
> > libraries conflict with each other? I wish to avoid creating any
> > dependency on cygwin for the build targets, and so mingw seems cleaner.
> >
>
> Cygwin also provides a mingw64 compiler, that when used have no
> dependency on Cygwin1.dll (which is what you're trying to avoid).
>
> So when you configure, you'll have to provide the configure script the
> fact that you're cross compiling.
>
> > Thanks, and sorry if these questions are answered in a wiki or faq; I
> > looked but couldn't find any answers.
> >
> > Elizabeth
>
>
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