From: Wesley J. M. <WM...@sd...> - 2013-05-30 16:42:37
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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? ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: This e-mail and any attachments are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail or any attachment is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by returning it to the sender and delete this copy from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. |
From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2013-05-30 17:16:46
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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Wesley J. Miller wrote: > 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 $HOME? Do I need to make a > *nix user? Or perhaps remove MinGW and create a non-admin XP user and use > that user to reinstall MinGW? Unless HOME is set in your Windows environment when you first started MSYS it should have created a /home/$USERNAME directory and set HOME to it. If HOME is an environment variable during the startup of MSYS then that value is used. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd |
From: macropanther <WM...@sd...> - 2013-05-30 17:55:48
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Turns out that I had just figured that out after readinga few dozen related posts. And, yes, I do have a %HOME% variable set to c:\. I think I did that years ago in an attempt to be lazy when typing long pathnames. You know, %HOME% is so much shorter thatn "C:\". <grin>. Thanks for the help! Wes -- View this message in context: http://mingw.5.n7.nabble.com/Invalid-HOME-after-installing-MinGW-tp31623p31625.html Sent from the MinGW - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |
From: macropanther <WM...@sd...> - 2013-05-30 17:54:19
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I reran my downloaded mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe after deleting the Windows HOME environment variable. The install was on top of the one that was already there. Worked like a champ. Now, on to compiling gstreamer. Only 19,383,556 headaches to go! Thanks, Wes -- View this message in context: http://mingw.5.n7.nabble.com/Invalid-HOME-after-installing-MinGW-tp31623p31626.html Sent from the MinGW - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |
From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2013-05-30 18:17:33
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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:54 PM, macropanther wrote: > I reran my downloaded mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe after deleting the Windows > HOME environment variable. The install was on top of the one that was > already there. Worked like a champ. > All you had to do was remove the %HOME% variable and restart MSYS. You didn't need to attempt to reinstall it. Also you should consider mingw-get-inst-*.exe a one time use only application. You should use mingw-get directly to update your system. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd |