Re: [Mingw-users] Install libxml2 on windows(MSYS)

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On 06.05.2011 13:15, tal - טל hadad - חדד wrote:
> Thank you for all your support, sorry for being a noob.
> It's configuring well now, but still one more problem- it can't recognize /usr/lib/libiconv.la. Why? Because I install libtool via "mingw-get install libtoo".
> The file does exist, but it is under C:\MinGW(because of using mingw-get), and my MSYS is under C:\MinGW\msys\1.0.
> So if I'm kinda in troubles right now...
> How can I solve this correctly? Can I re-install both minGW(+minGW-get) and MSYS to the same directory? Is it recommended?
> Does MSYSGit will solve it to one directory, and could I install minGW-get in it?
"DOING IT WRONG".

MinGW and Msys MUST be located in different directories.
Anything that does not depend on msys-1.0.dll (that is, anything you 
build with MinGW) should NOT go into /usr.
MinGW must live in a separate directory, and is usually mounted to 
/mingw (but that is not required). Msys' /etc/profile will add 
/mingw/bin to PATH BEFORE /bin, which is why Msys will use MinGW 
toolchain and MinGW tools, even if you have toolchain and tools with the 
same names in /usr/bin. If you don't mount MinGW directory as /mingw, 
you'd have to edit /etc/profile.
If you build something with MinGW toolchain, you should put it into 
/mingw by configuring with --prefix=/mingw
Never ever put anything MinGW-related into /usr/lib, /usr/bin or 
/usr/include, these are for Msys only.
You MIGHT put something in /usr/local (this is usually the default 
prefix), but MinGW will NOT find anything there by itself. If you do 
that, you'd have to pass CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" and 
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" to configure/make (although configuring with 
--prefix=/usr/local might take care of that - but that is up to 
configure script, not MinGW tools).