On 2010-12-02 12:25+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > getting the latest version of MSYS and MinGW using this installation > tool worked like a jiffy. I saw error messages about two packages > that were not downloaded, but I guess I can get them when needed.
Hi Arjen: I am taking this conversation back to the list because I think this good news about a working modern installer for MinGW/MSYS is of interest to quite a few here since otherwise installing modern MinGW/MSYS is quite a nasty chore. I tried the same installer (found at "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/Automated MinGW Installer/mingw-get-inst/mingw-get-inst-20101030/mingw-get-inst-20101030.exe" (all on one line with a blank between "Automated", "MinGW" and "Installer...") here under wine-1.3.8. It appeared to work with no issues at all. Using that installer, I chose gcc, g++, gfortran, Ada, and the MinGW developer toolkit (which includes MSYS BaseSystem). Despite the quite large number of packages that were downloaded, the whole process was still quick (5 minutes or so) so I think we can recommend this new installer to everybody here that wants to get quickly started with the latest MinGW/MSYS packages. More later once I get PLplot's dependencies and PLplot itself built and tested with the latest MinGW/MSYS under Wine. 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); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
