Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Just starting out...

2008-03-25 Thread NightStrike
On 3/25/08, whatis neveritis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eeps sorry that wasn't clear, So: |-- mingw - x86_64-pc-mingw32 mingw is a symlink towards x86_64-pc-mingw32 Only on file systems that support symlinks. I'll repackage the windows-hosted packages without any ambiguity in links. But

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Just starting out...

2008-03-21 Thread NightStrike
On 3/21/08, David Cleaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NightStrike wrote: No, it's just not setup right. The msys.bat file configures a system properly based on if you're 64-bit windows or 32-bit windows. So start your shell with that instead of starting sh.exe directly. You can use the

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Just starting out...

2008-03-20 Thread NightStrike
On 3/20/08, David Cleaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, Hi! I would like to start using mingw-w64, but am unsure of what to do. Emailing here is a good start :) I've just downloaded the latest mingw-w64-bin-x86_64-mingw_20080320.tar.bz2 and extracted it to its own folder

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Just starting out...

2008-03-20 Thread David Cleaver
NightStrike wrote: On 3/20/08, David Cleaver wrote: 1) Do I need to add c:\mw64\bin to my path? Yup. I'd put it first, too: PATH=C:\mw64\bin;%PATH% Awesome! After using tar under cygwin (I originally used a program called 7-zip) to re-extract all the files to c:\mw64, all the files

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Just starting out...

2008-03-20 Thread David Cleaver
NightStrike wrote: No, it's just not setup right. The msys.bat file configures a system properly based on if you're 64-bit windows or 32-bit windows. So start your shell with that instead of starting sh.exe directly. You can use the --norxvt option to msys.bat to use a normal windows