Re: [Mingw-msys] Other libs

[Keith M. <kei...@to...>]

> I have downloaded the libjpeg, fontconfig and a few other development
> packages. Some are in zip format, others come with an installer.
>
> Am I right in thinking that these should go into GnuWin32 (even the
> zipped version ones like fontconfig) and if that's the case, how do I
> get msys to recognise that they are there?
>
> Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm doing some porting work from Linux
> to Win32 and am using msys and mingw as it's pretty much a unix style
> dev environment.

I added a /local (alias /usr/local) to my MSYS tree.

To discover what that means, in native Win32 format, do

   ( cd /usr/local && pwd -W )

from your MSYS shell; (this tells me `d:/msys/1.0/local').  Then, run
the GnuWin32 installers, and tell them to use an installation path
equal to your equivalent of my `d:/msys/1.0/local'.

Add `/usr/local/bin' to your PATH, (in MSYS), and you're pretty much
set to go.

This keeps everything much as you are used to in Linux.

HTH.

Regards,
Keith.