[Mingw-users] Re: [Mingw-msys] A MSYS loader?

[Manu <ma...@wa...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:


> Manu wrote:
> > 
> >>If anyone is willing to work on any of this, we can discuss it in
> >>MinGW-dvlpr.
> > 
> > 
> > Then, no MSYS loader? That's unfortunate.
> > 
> 
> I didn't say that, I was just distributing ideas, the same as you.
> 
> > Ok. I'll do it anyway. Currently, I can build the sources and run
> > MSYS within Visual-MinGW. (Just wonderful! Believe me!)
> > 
> 
> This sounds great, I'll have to give it a try.

A first binary to play with:
http://visual-mingw.sourceforge.net/temp/msys-here.zip
Extract the exe file where your msys.bat lives.
Then, msys.exe will try to run /bin/rxvt, /bin/sh.
It should create an ini file.
You can change manually "StartRxvt" to 0 if you wish
to try without rxvt.

You can add a registry key to Drive/Directory for MSYS-here:

<drive>
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\MsysHere]
@="&Msys Here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\MsysHere\command]
@="C:\\Msys\\1.0\\msys.exe -c \"%1\""

</drive>

<directory>
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\MsysHere]
@="&Msys Here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\MsysHere\command]
@="C:\\Msys\\1.0\\msys.exe -c \"%1\""

</directory>

As usual, prudence with the registry.

Right-click a drive/directory from Windows Explorer, then click
Msys Here.

Note: It should be used only with the rc 4 since it doesn't "SET CYGWIN".

Manu.