Re: [Mingw-msys] Re: Perl causes an error in libperl.dll

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Dave Rowbotham wrote:
> Hi There
> 
> On Saturday 30 November 2002 7:21 pm, you wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Apparently you extracted msysDTK into your MinGW directory (/mingw)
>>>instead of your MSYS root directory (/).
>>
> I was running out of ideas ;-),
> 
> 
>>>Unfortunately there isn't an
>>>uninstall for tar.gz files so you may need to remove and reinstall MinGW
>>>if you want to be sure msysDTK is uninstalled.
>>
> Yes indeed, this wouldnt be the first time I have blown up a compiler 
> installation ;-) 
> 
> I will delete everything ( mingw compiler folder and msys ), and reinstall 
> Msys , MsysDTK and MingW . Any likely theories on a prefered installation 
> order/destination accepted.
> 

It depends.  Some like to keep the directories separated in different 
roots.  So if you like

c:/mingw
c:/msys/1.0

Then install mingw first.

If you like

c:/msys/1.0
c:/msys/1.0/mingw

Then install msys first.

Earnie.