Re: [Mingw-users] Unable to get MinGW/MSYS to install on Windows 8.1 because of space in user name

[Aaron G. <aar...@gm...>]

Jared,

Its just the per user installer that runs /etc/profile takes the user
name and creates a home directory using the username this process
fails.

I have found that you can create a new user without having to go
through a Microsoft Account. BUT that requires relogging in as a new
user which is very inconvenient.

Aaron


On 30 November 2013 05:51, Jared Maddox <abs...@gm...> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:45:24 +0000
>> From: Aaron Gray <aar...@gm...>
>> Subject: [Mingw-users] Unable to get MinGW/MSYS to install on Windows
>>       8.1 because of space in user name
>> To: MinGW Users List <min...@li...>
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>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Windows 8.1 requires both a First Name and a Surname to create a new user
>> and hence an mandatory space in the user name.
>>
>> I cannot seem to install MSYS for a user on Windows 8.1 as there is a space
>> in the name.
>>
>
> So, just to make certain that the question is clear, Windows 8.1
> forces a space in the user name, and then places all applications and
> their data within a location that has the user name (with said space)
> as part of the path, thus resulting in all paths usable to a program
> having a space in it's full path name, correct? If I got that correct,
> then I think this could only be solved if the MSYS dll had a full
> internal FS that Windows paths only got mapped to; this, in turn,
> might cause significant performance penalties, depending on
> implementation details. On the upside, there wouldn't be any such
> thing as a Windows location that couldn't be handled by MSYS, since
> you could just rename everything that you wanted to mount in the MSYS
> filesystem.
>
> Is this a planned feature for MSYS2?
>
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