Hi all, I've been setting msys2 up and pondering its usage for mingw builds. The two handles I'm having trouble with now are the mount procedure and possible links. The idea that msys2 is somewhat congruent with the cygwin64 shell led me to experiment with making /mingw64 a symbolic link to a winbuilds64 distribution. This almost worked but stopped so that "/mingw64" included bin, lib, include, and only a small portion of lib64. Next I tried renaming, with the msys2 shell, the winbuilds64/ directory into "/mingw64"; it appears there in Explorer but Msys2 will have nothing to do with it:
greg@Homerw7 ~ $ ls /mingw64 ls: cannot access /mingw64: No such file or directory greg@Homerw7 ~ $ cd / greg@Homerw7 / $ mv mingw64 /d/programs/winbuilds64 mv: cannot stat ‘mingw64’: No such file or directory greg@Homerw7 / $ ls autorebase.bat etc maintenancetool.exe mingw64 network.xml usr bin home maintenancetool.ini mingw64_shell.bat opt var components.xml InstallationLog.txt mingw32 msys2.ico proc x86_64-win32-seh dev maintenancetool.dat mingw32_shell.bat msys2_shell.bat tmp greg@Homerw7 / $ mv mingw64/ /d/programs/winbuilds64 mv: cannot stat ‘mingw64/’: No such file or directory greg@Homerw7 / $ ls mingw64 ls: cannot access mingw64: No such file or directory greg@Homerw7 / $ ls autorebase.bat etc maintenancetool.exe mingw64 network.xml usr bin home maintenancetool.ini mingw64_shell.bat opt var components.xml InstallationLog.txt mingw32 msys2.ico proc x86_64-win32-seh dev maintenancetool.dat mingw32_shell.bat msys2_shell.bat tmp ========================================================================= I use symlinks in cygwin64 to designate the windows drives /c/, /d/, /e/ (I don't know yet how to get them mounted without a /cygdrive) so it wasn't too much of a stretch to believe it might be possible in msys2. The next line of attack is to make more mounts; I'm having no luck on this front. Here is the /etc/fstab I tried: # For a description of the file format, see the Users Guide # http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table # DO NOT REMOVE NEXT LINE. It remove cygdrive prefix from path none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,noacl,user 0 0 # C:/programs/winbuilds64/ /mingw64 ntfs binary,posix=0,noacl,user 0 0 ========================================== Thanks in advance for any help; I'm gonna back up my system drive now. Greg
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