MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows

mingw-get-inst is a simple InnoSetup GUI installer that (indirectly) installs MinGW and MSYS. It actually only installs the new `mingw-get' executable and its support files---and then invokes that program to handle the actual installation. During the GUI phase of the installation, you may select which elements you wish to install, from the following list: MinGW Compiler Suite C Compiler optional (*) C++ Compiler optional Fortran Compiler optional ObjC Compiler optional Ada Compiler optional MSYS Basic System optional MinGW Developer Toolkit optional (*) Note that if any component of the compiler suite is selected, then the C Compiler component is also installed, whether selected or not. After the GUI phase of the installation is complete, mingw-get will be invoked to download and install all of the selected components. Once installation is complete, you can update to any available newer version of the available components, or add additional components, by performing the following steps: cd C:\MinGW\bin (or whereever mingw-get.exe is located) mingw-get update mingw-get install <... package names ...> The 'update' command updates the local copy of the package information database. This version of mingw-get-inst ships with a snapshot of that database, from 2012 Apr 21. (During the GUI phase of the installation, you will be given the option of automatically updating the database to the latest version, or using the pre-packaged snapshot). If there are any issues with this installer or with mingw-get, please report problems to mingw-users@lists.sourceforge.net After triage, you may be asked to open an official bug report by following the instructions here: http://www.mingw.org/reporting_bugs Changes ========== 20120421: * Ship with mingw-get-0.5-beta-20120416-1. This release fixes a number of bugs and adds several new features. For a complete description, see http://tinyurl.com/cfhog7v . = Bugfix: #3416013: --reinstall and dependent packages = Bugfix: #3424406: install --reinstall performs an upgrade = New feature: Forced installation of a specified (non-current) release. = New feature: Support for package maintainer scripted installation hooks. = New option: "--desktop" = New option: "--start-menu" * With the release of gcc-4.6.2-1, the ability to install Ada from the GUI installer has been re-enabled. * Update catalogue to 2012-04-21. 20111118: * Ship with mingw-get-0.4-alpha-1. This release fixes a critical bug in the upgrade code, whereby an existing DLL could be replaced by an alternative with an incompatible ABI version, where the correct action is to install both concurrently. It also adds several new features, including anonymous upgrade, the 'source' and 'license' actions; and the new --print-uris, --download-only, and --all-related options. For more information on these new features, see the NEWS items listed here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get/mingw-get-0.4-alpha-1/ * mingw-get-inst now allows to install MSYS alone, without automatically installing the MinGW C compiler. * mingw-get-inst now logs the output of mingw-get. The log is stored in <top>/var/log/mingw-get-log.txt, and may optionally be displayed when mingw-get-inst is finished. * Update catalogue to 2011-11-17. 20110802: * Ship with mingw-get-0.3-alpha-2.1. This bugfix release corrects critical defect in the version matching code within mingw-get's dependency resolver, which resulted in failure of wild card tokens in a requirements specification to match an actual package version, where that version was qualified by a release status descriptor, (such as "alpha", "beta", "pre", etc.). Therefore, this version of mingw-get is a mandatory prerequisite upgrade for all users who may wish to install and deploy the upcoming MinGW GCC-4.6 pre-release packages using mingw-get. * Update catalogue to 2011-08-02. 20110530: * Ship with mingw-get-0.3-alpha-1. This feature enhancement release provides new features to accord package maintainers greater flexibility in the identification of development progression within package names; as such it is likely to be the earliest mingw-get release which will support delivery of the next GCC release. This release also accords greater control to the user, over the verbosity of progress reporting and debugging diagnostics, at run time. * Update catalogue to 2011-05-30. * Remove 'Ada' from MinGW component list. The upcoming gcc-4.6.x release will (temporarily) omit Ada, so to avoid confusion in this GUI it is removed from the list of choices. Those who require Ada and are content to use the gcc-4.3.4 package set should contact the mailing list for assistance. However, the following command MAY be enough to get you started: mingw-get install gcc-ada * (internal): Built using InnoSetup 5.4.2 (ANSI); previous versions were built using InnoSetup 5.3.10 (ANSI). 20110316: * Ship with mingw-get-0.2-alpha-2. This bugfix release corrects MinGW‐Bug 3212246; this was a serious bug which, under certain specific conditions, could result in a package name alias being matched to the wrong package, (e.g. autoconf2.5 resolved to match the mingw32‐autoconf2.1 package, instead of mingw32‐autoconf2.5). * Update catalogue to 2011-03-16. * pkginfo is added to the initial installation list. mingw-get-inst has long installed this element (part of the mingw-get constellation, but not an explicity required element). "Prime the pump" so that mingw-get will know how to update pkginfo in the future. 20110313: * Ship with mingw-get-0.2-alpha-1. This new release adds the following new features and improvements. For more information (and current limitations) see the NEWS file in the mingw-get source package, or the following readme.txt file: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/mingw-get/mingw-get-0.2-alpha-1/ -- remove -- PROVISIONAL support for removal of packages which have been previously installed. (WARNING: 'mingw-get remove foo' WILL remove all files associated with package 'foo', even if some other package 'bar' may depend on them. -- upgrade -- The upgrade operation is now implemented as a 'remove' as described above, followed by an 'install'. -- list, show -- Preliminary support for the list operation, which allows to list the description text for a specific package, or to show a list of all available packages. 'show' is currently a synonym for 'list'. * Update catalogue to 2011-03-13. * mingw-get is added to the initial installation list. This rather odd step is required to "prime the pump" -- it establishes an installation record for the mingw-get package ITSELF, so that in the future, mingw-get will be able to upgrade itself if necessary. 20110211: * Ship with mingw-get-0.1-alpha-5.1. This is a bug-fix release to correct a critical defect in the resolution of dependencies, when performing an upgrade operation. It also provides more meaningful diagnostics when mingw-get is invoked without arguments. * Remove 'MSYS System Builder' from GUI selection dialog. Too many novice users were installating it without understanding its purpose, leading to a lot of confusion on the mailing list. ************************************************************ ** Most people should not install the MSYS System Builder ** ** It is for building MSYS applications and libraries. ** ** As most users want to build MinGW (that is, native ** ** win32) applications and libraries, it is inappropriate ** ** to install the MSYS System Builder. However, if you ** ** really want to install it, use the command line tool ** ** 'mingw-get install msys-dvlpr' ** ** AFTER you install the other components using this GUI ** ** installation process. But DO NOT DO THIS unless you ** ** really understand the implications. ** ************************************************************ * Update catalogue to 2011-02-11; update documentation to reflect availability of new MinGW gcc version 4.5.2. 20101030: * Ship with mingw-get-0.1-alpha-5; this provides a more robust solution to the "mingw-get deleted itself" problem, together with a workaround to avoid a race condition in this installer itself. 20100909: * Ship with mingw-get-0.1-alpha-4, which fixes the "mingw-get deleted itself" problem and adds a --help option. * Now also (optionally) install the MinGW Developer Toolkit and/or MSYS System Builder meta package collections. * No longer requires Admin privileges * Optionally run 'mingw-get update' to download the most recent set of package metadata before performing the installation. 20100831: * Initial release Background ========== mingw-get is the actual MinGW installer. It supports multiple installation locations on a single computer, multiple repositories and handles dependency relationships between elements. However, it is still a work in progress---and many potential users are intimidated by it, because it is a command line application and requires some configuration file editing before it can be used. mingw-get is structured as a library that contains all of the core implementation logic, and a command-line interface (CLI) front end executable. Eventually, that CLI application will be superseded by a GUI front end---once the development of the back end implementation logic and library is complete. However, the CLI mingw-get is usuable today, for simple installations. mingw-get-inst is NOT the GUI version of mingw-get. Rather, it is a quick and dirty InnoSetup wrapper that installs the CUI mingw-get, modifies the configuration files as needed automatically, and invokes mingw-get with the appropriate arguments to handle the actual installation. We expect that mingw-get-inst will be obsoleted once the GUI version of mingw-get is released, but that may be some time from now.