[Mingw-users] Invalid $HOME after installing MinGW

[Wesley J. M. <WM...@sd...>]

Hello,

MinGW, or, perhaps, more correctly, msys, thinks my home directory is /c and I don't have an msys/1.0/home directory at all..  This is, obviously, not right.

I am Administrator on a WInXP machine (VM really).
I installed (as Administrator) from mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe. During the install, I chose every option and elected to download latest packages.  Installed to c:\MinGW.

I checked my Start->Programs->Mingw->MinGW Shell properties. it is starting C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat and the start-in directory is C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin.   Note I do not have an msys entry in my programs list.

I have determined that / is C:\MinGW\msys\1.0.

When I run  msys.bat I get a MinGW prompt.  Entering echo $HOME says /c. And there is no directory named /home. echo $USERNAME = Administrator and echo $LOGNAME = Administrator.

Can someone tell me what I did to end up with no $HOME? Do I need to make a *nix user? Or perhaps remove MinGW and create a non-admin XP user and use that user to reinstall MinGW?


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