I tried mingw64 again. This time the msys installer didn't crash my computer. However, it was unable to find gcc in the mingw64 installation. So it installs without gcc.
I think someone has gone through and renamed all the binaries to things like x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe so msys can't find them. Where is the Windows installer which installs both msys and mingw. Do I need a 64 bit msys too? If so, where do I get that? And where are the instructions for installing these two so they work together? If I put mingw into google, the first thing that comes up is this page: http://www.mingw.org/ It tells me nothing except what mingw and msys are. No download tab, no development list, no installation instructions, nothing. Now I recall, from having this problem before that mingw64 is not the same thing, so I put that into google and I get: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/ - the download page at sourceforge with no project info whatsoever http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/ - presumably the project page, which really just directs me to the download page, which appears to not be the same page as the above. If I put msys into google I get: http://www.mingw.org/ http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS Neither of which are enlightening. Putting msys64 into google seems to return nothing canonical. Bill. On 17 July 2010 14:50, degski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jason, > >> ... but never even managed to install it. > > The easiest is to download the complete thing like this package: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Automated%20Builds/mingw-w64-bin_i686-mingw_20100628.zip/download > (about halfway down the page) and simply extract the archive in a > suitable directory like c:\mingw (it has the whole structure/files > needed included/set up (add c:\mingw\bin to your path, that cannot > hurt in any case), then install msys as usual, pointing to the > mingw\bin dir. > > After some renaming of some files, this also works a dream with > Code::Blocks 10.5! > > Cheers > > > degski > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mpir-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en.
