Re: [Mingw-users] About Msys include path

[Damon R. <dam...@be...>]

Keith Marshall wrote:
> Yes, it does this by default, because you neglected or overlooked:
I'll buy overlooked

> |  ports, supplementary MinGW programs or libraries, you are advised
> |  to install them into the /mingw directory tree, to ensure that they
Since I have recently "committed the cardinal sin of specifying your
libraries before the modules which require them", I am very interested
in threads like this one.

> this manner.  There are better alternatives, which you may discover 
> if you read the reference documents mentioned below.
Since this probably affects me, I will do my best to absorb the
information.

> This is to be expected; you will find the explanation at:
> http://www.mingw.org/wiki/IncludePathHOWTO
> ...
> That may be achieved, if you follow the instructions in:
> http://www.mingw.org/wiki/SpecsFileHOWTO
Thanks for these two links

> and includes some important corrections to the original information; 
> read it ALL THE WAY THROUGH, *before* you start to modify *anything*.
I may have to read it several times to understand it.

Thanks for taking the time to add to this discussion.  Since
I am struggling with this subject and trying to build some
packages for msys, this helps me too.


Damon Register