[Mingw-users] User confused by "After Installing You Should ..." recommendations

[Steve M. <st...@ma...>]

I have just installed mingw. Reading through the Graphical User Interface
Installer instructions I got confused.  In the section entitled  After
Installing You Should ... there is a list of 5 instructions that I believe
I followed.  Then there is another paragraph:

Additionally, if you have installed MSYS <http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS>,
you are advised to create a start menu "MinGW Shell" shortcut in your
"Start\Programs\MinGW" folder, (which you may also need to create); this
should invoke the C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat script, which is installed as
a component of MSYS <http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS>; (if you installed to
an alternative directory, you should adjust the C:\MinGW prefix
accordingly).

Having worked with Linux I have some familiarity with shortcuts in that
environment, but not in Win10.  I find the reference to the
"Start\Programs\MinGW"
folder very confusing.  In a Linux environment I suppose Start could be a
folder in root, in Win10 this might be a subdirectory to something, but I
can't figure out what.  I find the msys.bat script exactly where the
paragraph tells me to look for it, but I am at a lose as to how to use it.

I suppose that since these instructions have been around for years, there
have been others potentially as confused as I am, who blundered onto the
correct approach.  If this query goes unanswered I suppose I will too.

But I'd like to understand what was said to me.

Thanks
Steve Maguire

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