Re: [Mingw-users] Problems installing MinGW

[Robert M. <rob...@be...>]

> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:51:59 +0100
> From: Keith Marshall <kei...@us...>
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Problems installing MinGW
>
> On 21/08/13 01:22, Robert Miles wrote:
[snip]
>> The instructions for installing MSYS call for editting
>> C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\fstab.  There is no such file.
> No.  It needs to be created after installation.  Ideally a post-install
> script should do that, but you may just as well create it using your
> editor of choice, (preferably one which can handle $DEITY's preferred LF
> only line endings).
>
>> However, there is a file  C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\fstab.sample.  The
>> instructions for opening fstab do not work for fstab.sample;
> Huh?  It's a plain text file; open it in your text editor of choice, and
> use it as a template for the creation of /etc/fstab
I don't  have an  editor that can handle LF only line endings, so I took 
the long way
around for this.  I copied fstab.sample to a Cygwin directory, ran 
unix2dos on it,
renamed it fstab.txt, copied it to my desktop, ran my editor on it, 
copied it back
to a Cygwin directory, renamed it fstab, ran dos2unix on it, and copied 
it to the proper
directory.

I then started MSYS, ran /postinstall/pi.sh as shown on page 8 of the
Getting_Started instructions, and this added one more line to fastab to 
handle
differences in which directories have capitalized names.

Most of the commands now start properly.

However, I installed the Fortran compiler, but cannot find any command for
starting it.  Which command should I try?