Re: [Mingw-users] Include and Library environment for MingW?

[John C. <JPC...@co...>]

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Kenneth Long wrote:

> How do I setup m mingw/msys bash shell to include
> PATHs for libraries?
>
> For example, I've "configure, make, make install"
> zlib, http://www.zlib.net/
> it shows up in /local/lib and /local/include.
>
> How do I now reference these in my bash profile?
>
> I'm not sure the variable to represent these paths.
>
> This is XP. and I didnt want to modify my
> Windows global PATH variable. It does seem to help,
> anyway. I wanted to modify the msys bash profile
> startup script.

I usually just do ./configure --prefix=mingw --whatever-else...
'make install' will then put things in /mingw/lib and /mingw/include --
where they need to be.

MSYS specific changes should go in .profile or /etc/profile

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