[Dev-C++] MSYS and Dev-Cpp's makefile generation

[Christopher H. <ha...@au...>]

Before discovered Dev-C++, I used MinGW and MSYS as well as other tools =
in
that family. I recently tried to install MSYS into the same directory as
Dev-C++ (since the directory structures are similar and I already have =
the
'bin' directory on my path). After installing MSYS into 'Dev-Cpp' the =
build
project function no longer works as 'make' exits with a compiler error =
of
'No input files found'. Examining the compile log shows that the syntax
passed to the compiler is correct (the source file is there). I have =
tried
compiling from the command line using that same syntax (it works) and I =
have
tried moving 'make' and 'mingw32-make' out of the 'bin' directory before
installing MSYS and then moving them back and overwriting MSYS's make
utilities (doesn't work). If MSYS is installed in a different directory =
and
pointed to 'Dev-Cpp' during the post-install, the problem does not =
occur.

So then, how does Dev-C++ generate those makefiles? If anyone has also =
tried
using MSYS in the same directory as Dev-C++ successfully, what steps did =
you
take?

-christof