If you are a "complete win32 guy", I would suggest Visual Studio Express Edition instead; unless you are trying change your ways :-) FWIW, I wasn't really suggesting that you install MSYS2, just giving a reference for how we build it with MSYS2/MinGW-w64.
Anyway, if you want to continue down this road that is fine. Pacman is our package manager (ported from Arch Linux) that installs and updates prebuilt binaries. makepkg (or makepkg-mingw) are the scripts that make these packages. If you want to build FreeImage the MSYS2-way from source code then you must use the MSYS2-provided compilers: 1. Install the installer. 2. Update as-per the Wiki ( https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/ ) - basically pacman -Syu 3. Install base-devel, MinGW-w64 compilers and MinGW-w64: pacman -S base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-i686-toolchain 4. Clone MINGW-packages: git clone https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages 5. Go to the right directory: cd MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-FreeImage 6. Build it: makepkg-mingw -s -L (-s will install necessary build- and run-time dependencies, -L will save a log in-case anything goes wrong). 7. Install the packages you just built: pacman -U mingw-w64-*.xz After this, you will have source code, object files, some packages and logs around for reference. FreeImage is a package that Alexey did quite a lot of changes to so that it uses other shared dependencies instead of bundling and building the source code of its dependencies, but we think that given a good build and packaging system like MSYS2 has, using shared dependencies is the preferred approach. .. MSYS2 really shines when developer-users provide us with PKGBUILD files that re-use our pre-built binaries, so if the thing you need FreeImage for is Open Source, then forking MINGW-packages, adding a PKGBUILD for it and submitting a pull request via GitHub would be welcomed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
