RE: [Mingw-users] Which files do I need to download?

[Foster, G. <gar...@si...>]

I have to admit, I was left in the same situation as Leif with the
downloading and installing of mingw, the download page is frankly awful, I
agree entirely with the comments made about the state of it. That said, I
don't want to bitch, I'm sure all is well once you have gotten as far as
installing the thing.

I had been having problems before with minGW, I had installed msys, the
msysDTK and then extracted all the other things that looked relevent from
zip files into the mingw tree. That was the best interpretation of the
download page I could mange at the time, and it resulted in a g++ binary
that wouldn't except program arguments.

From the looks of this useful discussion, it seems that all I actually need
is to install msysDTK and I will be ready to build GTK+/GTKmm programs
(assuming I use the installers for GTK+ etc)? Is this the case?

To try to make this more constructive, how about updating the download
instructions with a bit of HTML as follows? A few little tips for the most
common use scenarios might be an idea?

|-- HINT ----------------------------------------|
| |------|                                       |
| | GTK+ |     NB: GTK+ users, all you have to   |
| |______|         do to build your GTK+ apps    |
|                  is install the msysDTK !      |
|------------------------------------------------|

Cheers, 

Gaz


-----Original Message-----
From: min...@li...
[mailto:min...@li...] On Behalf Of Michael Bester
Sent: 31 January 2005 13:23
To: min...@li...
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Which files do I need to download?


Leif W wrote:

>> Michael Bester; 2005 January 30 Sunday 20:07
>>
>>> Leif W wrote:
>>>
>>> So far, I have downloaded MinGW-3.2.0-rc-1.exe (it was the newest at 
>>> the time) and MSYS-1.0.10.exe.  I would like to start playing with 
>>> GTK+ for windows (as a developer), and that requires some additional 
>>> tools like m4, autoconf & automake, among others.  First is the
>>
>
>> what you need is msysDTK - it contains the whole toolchain, which 
>> you'll need for the gtk+ and other projects.
>> you can download it from the mingw site.with it you can run the usual 
>> configure scripts.
>
>
> Ok, thanks, I will try this.  Is there any overlap with the currently 
> installed MSYS?  Do I need to uninstall MSYS?  Can it install next to 
> MSYS?  What about the versions of the tools?  MSYS and msysDTK 
> downloads have different dates, 15 months different, which is a HUGE 
> difference. If I am going to build my own applications with autoconf 
> and automake, are they included in msysDTK, or do I need the 
> additional downloads and libtool?
>
> If I want an up-to-date MinGW/MSYS, should I just use the current 
> MinGW/MSYS and then get the source from the upstream sites and rebuild 
> everything?
>
> Leif
>
they are. The whole gnu - toolchain + perl is included. You will 
probably need the new binutils + bison etc. I did
not install the new mingw-don't know which versions of 
binutils+runtime+winapi's are included.
/michael.



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