From: Theodore H. S. <de...@el...> - 2008-04-16 14:59:58
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On 16 Apr 2008, at 14:55, JonY wrote: > Theodore H. Smith wrote: >> On 16 Apr 2008, at 13:59, JonY wrote: >> >>> Theodore H. Smith wrote: >>>> On 16 Apr 2008, at 13:44, Tuomo Latto wrote: >>>> >>>> Well I have no idea what a memtest is or where I'd get it. Or why >>>> I'd >>>> need it. >>>> >>>> Are you saying you think my RAM is damaged? >>>> >>>> I think It's more likely those scripts need fixing and the >>>> installer >>>> needs msys added to it. >>>> >>>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Why would you say that? >> >> Because it failed? > Hi, > sorry, I meant to say why would you say the script needs fixing? Because it failed. >> Also because msys is not selectable as part of the "simple mingw >> install". Which doesn't make sense to me. >> > IMHO, MSYS is considered a seperate entity, although usually used to > support MinGW. Well how am I meant to compile my C++ code without msys? Is there a better easier way? It's like saying a bicycle seat and a bicycle are considered separate entities... I'd rather get a bicycle with a seat... Instead of having to waste days arguing with people to try to get them to fix the seat to the bicycle so I can ride it. > That's a good thing. Until awhile ago, MSYS can't differentiate > between > MSYS and native win32 apps. make.exe is different from mingw32- > make.exe, > the former is designed to be used under MSYS while the latter is > used as > a native makefile processor. > > Congrats, MinGW and MSYS is now installed. OK great. Except that machine I installed it on, was a friends, not my own. So either I need to buy Windows Vista, and install it on my PC at home... or find some fix to this bug. So I'm still not in much luck yet. >> I've noticed the "easy installer" has problems. That often it would >> be >> unable to download files, until I retried a few times. So perhaps it >> missed downloading "make" despite that I selected it. > > Personally, I'm would avoid all forms of .exe installers, they look > like > opaque blobs, but that's just me. That's the whole point, that they "look like opaque blobs". I don't want to go around picking individual files off of sourceforge and manually inspecting them. I just want an install with all I need to compile C++ source code using a makefile. Well... I'm still stuck. This is no good. If anyone from the mingw team has Parallels (a PC emulator), I can give you my parallels "virtual computer", that I'm having the trouble on. I think that would be a good idea as it would enable you to fix the bug. And make a release that does not anymore be unable to install msys on normal PCs. |