Author: wyoung
Date: Wed Jan 9 23:25:30 2008
New Revision: 2112
URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/mysqlpp?rev=2112&view=rev
Log:
Added a section on Cygwin and MinGW coexistence to the MinGW README
Modified:
trunk/README-MinGW.txt
Modified: trunk/README-MinGW.txt
URL:
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/mysqlpp/trunk/README-MinGW.txt?rev=2112&r1=2111&r2=2112&view=diff
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--- trunk/README-MinGW.txt (original)
+++ trunk/README-MinGW.txt Wed Jan 9 23:25:30 2008
@@ -58,3 +58,34 @@
can run the install.bat file at the project root to automatically
install the library files and headers in subdirectories under
c:\mysql++.
+
+
+Cygwin and MinGW Coexistence
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ It's possible to have both Cygwin and MinGW installed and build
+ with the MinGW tools without interference from the Cygwin bits.
+ The main thing you have to take care of is that MinGW's bin
+ directory must precede the Cygwin bin directory in the PATH,
+ so that its tools are found first. If you use Cygwin's bash
+ as a command shell in preference to the DOS-like cmd.exe, you
+ can use this shell script to temporarily set the environment to
+ "MinGW mode" and make it easy to get back to "Cygwin mode":
+
+ #!/bin/sh
+ PATH=/c/mingw/bin:/c/windows:/c/windows/system32:/c/cygwin/bin
+ echo "Say 'exit' to leave MinGW shell and restore Cygwin environment."
+ /usr/bin/bash --rcfile ~/.mingwrc
+
+ I recommend having at least this in the ~/.mingwrc file:
+
+ alias make=mingw32-make
+ PS1='MinGW: \W \$ '
+
+ The prompt change reminds you that you are in a sub-shell set up
+ for MinGW. The alias for 'make' ensures you don't accidentally
+ run Cygwin's make, which won't work with Makefile.mingw. We could
+ just leave /c/cygwin/bin out of the environment, but there are
+ Cygwin tools we want access to, like vim. As long as all the
+ MinGW ones override those Cygwin also provides, we don't need to
+ worry about having both in the PATH. Besides, having the alias
+ is nice for those who have 'make' committed to muscle memory.
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