From: Charles W. <cwi...@us...> - 2010-09-17 02:49:54
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On 9/16/2010 5:04 PM, Vincent Richomme wrote: > I was curious to know how msys is progressing and I could see a new > binary called > mingw-get-inst-20100909.exe. > So I tried to launch it and tried to install base system+gcc and I > could see a console > displaying some xmf files and at the end an error. Well, you really shouldn't get an error -- but I can't help you any more than that unless you give more details: what did you select in the GUI portion of the installer, what EXACTLY did the error message say, etc. > When I launch mingw-get from cygwin I get : > > $ ./mingw-get.exe > mingw-get.exe: libexec/mingw-get/gui.exe: unable to start application; Jasper already answered this part. If you want to install what USED to be called the "MSYS DTK" -- a *really* bad name, as it actually provided tools for Developing MinGW stuff; so we now call that collection the MinGW DTK! -- then you'd probably want to do the following: mingw-get update mingw-get install mingw-dtk Then, you should just run C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat Note that the "new" default configuration is that MinGW stuff goes into C:\MinGW\{bin,include,..} just like before, but the MSYS stuff goes "underneath", in C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\{bin,include,...}. -- Chuck |