The MinGW-w64/MSYS2 wiki at <https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki> refers to <https://github.com/TeaCI/tea-ci/wiki/Msys2-on-Wine> for instructions about how to install MinGW-w64/MSYS2 on the wine-staging platform. Those instructions (updated a year ago by Qian Hong) fail quite early in the process for me. I have attempted to contact Qian Hong directly about that earlier this week, but he has not responded. So although Qian Hong's wiki entry is obviously not part of the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 effort, I thought I would at least detail what I tried here in case someone else here knows how to get MinGW-w64/MSYS2 installed on the wine-staging platform.
My Linux platform is Debian Jessie so the first step was to install wine-staging following the Debian Jessie instructions at https://wine-staging.com/installation.html. That installed winehq-staging 2.4 which is several months out of date, but I thought it was likely new enough to attempt to proceed further since that version was released after the above wiki entry was last updated in July 2016. I then set the following environment variables: export WINEVERSION=2.4_jessie_wine-staging export WINEPREFIX=/home/wine/wine_staging/.wine-$WINEVERSION export WINEDEBUG='fixme-all' and ran winecfg taking defaults for everything. I then ran these further commands: wineserver -p wget http://repo.msys2.org/distrib/x86_64/msys2-x86_64-20161025.exe nice -19 wineconsole --backend=curses msys2-x86_64-20161025.exe That GUI appeared to work fine for getting through the welcome page, the prefix page (where I appended "_20170612" to the install prefix), and the keyboard shortcuts page (where I used default), but the next page where an attempt was made to actually install files, it got through roughly 60 per cent of it and abruptly ended with what looked like a bash.exe segfault and the following fatal error message that came up on wineconsole err:ole:CoCreateInstanceEx apartment not initialised err:ole:CoCreateInstanceEx apartment not initialised err:ole:CoCreateInstanceEx apartment not initialised wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000020 at address 0x7bc4b478 (thread 0046), starting debugger... Note the above installer is not what was recommended above in July 2016, but instead is the latest one you find if you start at <https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki/MSYS2-installation> and follow the 64-bit installation instructions. I then repeated the attempt using the equivalent 32-bit installer, msys2-i686-20161025.exe, but there were similar errors in that case as well. I must say I am quite surprised by these failures of the install GUI's since my Wine experience with installers from several years ago for a rather large variety of different software projects was that generally install GUI's (whose simple job after all is normally to obtain files from the web and install them) work well under Wine. Is there something more I should be doing to get either of these installers to work on wine-staging? If not, but someone here finds these installers have no such issues under the latest wine-staging (as opposed to the 2.4 version I am using), then can you tell me how do I get access to that latest version? Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list Msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
