Thanks for your replies. I will take a look at both, and I'm sure one will
work for me.
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Ivan Garramona
<[email protected]>wrote:
> 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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