Fabian Greffrath dixit:
>> introduction that assumes nothing has been installed yet,
>There should be an msys.bat in your mingw directory. Run this with the
I don’t even have one ☺ but …
>Get the lates installer from here to install MinGW/MSYS:
… this helps, of course – thanks.
>All that wingw-w64 does in this regard is bundling the whole of MSYS
>into a single zip file. There are no other "tools that come with it". It
>is, however, more convenient to point people to this zip file than
>leading them through the whole download and installations instructions
>for MinGW if they are just interested in the MSYS utilities. ;)
Ah. Is that amd64-only or will it work with my win2k setup
on “that laptop from 1999”?
>Regarding MSYS, I think development has halted when it was considered
>"good enough" to run the majority of ./configure scripts. There is a
That’s enough for it goals, after all.
>reimplementation going on called MSYS2 which will be based on the
>current Cygwin development, but I don't know how far this is from
I don’t think that’s really good because that dropped e.g. Win95
compatibility… but YMMV ☺
I mean, sure, as user I might want to install and use latest Cygwin,
especially if I develop myself, but if I’m an upstream who wants to
also provide Win32 binaries of his applications, using the old and
more compatible versions fulfills my user story better.
bye,
//mirabilos (much too hot these days)
--
(gnutls can also be used, but if you are compiling lynx for your own use,
there is no reason to consider using that package)
-- Thomas E. Dickey on the Lynx mailing list, about OpenSSL
