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Index: ChangeLog =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mingw/htdocs/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.119 retrieving revision 1.120 diff -C2 -d -r1.119 -r1.120 *** ChangeLog 18 Feb 2003 05:46:11 -0000 1.119 --- ChangeLog 18 Feb 2003 23:41:03 -0000 1.120 *************** *** 1,2 **** --- 1,8 ---- + 2003-02-18 Nathan Fisher <na...@us...> + + * download.shtml: Add package installation instructions. + Add detailed post-MSYS MinGW normalization instructions. + * bugs.shtml: Add request for OS info. + 2003-02-17 Nathan Fisher <na...@us...> Index: bugs.shtml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mingw/htdocs/bugs.shtml,v retrieving revision 1.8 retrieving revision 1.9 diff -C2 -d -r1.8 -r1.9 *** bugs.shtml 18 Feb 2003 05:46:11 -0000 1.8 --- bugs.shtml 18 Feb 2003 23:41:03 -0000 1.9 *************** *** 1,15 **** ! <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> ! <html> ! <head> ! <meta content= ! 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MinGW - Reporting bugs ! </title> <style type="text/css"> :link { color: #000099 } --- 1,7 ---- ! <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head> ! <meta content="HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 1st February 2003), see www.w3.org" name="generator"> ! <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> ! <link href="mingw.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" title="MinGW"><title>MinGW - Reporting bugs</title> ! <style type="text/css"> :link { color: #000099 } *************** *** 17,22 **** :active { color: #000099 } img.c3 {border:0;width:88px;height:31px} ! </style> ! </head> <body> <h1> --- 9,14 ---- :active { color: #000099 } img.c3 {border:0;width:88px;height:31px} ! </style></head> ! <body> <h1> *************** *** 50,55 **** --- 42,51 ---- <ul> <li> + OS version ( Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP )<br> + </li> + <li> gcc version ( `gcc -v` ) </li> + <li> ld version ( `ld -v` )<br> *************** *** 88,98 **** </ul> SourceForge gives us nice tools to keep track of your bug reports, so please ! <a href= ! "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2435&atid=102435" ! target="_nw">follow this link to file your report.</a> You will need a SourceForge login account. If you don't have one then ! <a href= ! "https://sourceforge.net/account/register.php">follow this link to register for one.</a><br> <br> --- 84,91 ---- </ul> SourceForge gives us nice tools to keep track of your bug reports, so please ! <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2435&atid=102435" target="_nw">follow this link to file your report.</a> You will need a SourceForge login account. If you don't have one then ! <a href="https://sourceforge.net/account/register.php">follow this link to register for one.</a><br> <br> *************** *** 131,147 **** <li> gcc bug reporting guidelines:<br> ! <a href= ! "http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html"> http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html</a> </li> <li> gcc mailing list archives:<br> ! <a href= ! "http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html</a> </li> <li> cygwin (binutils, gdb and cygwin):<br> ! <a href= ! "http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html">http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html</a><br> </li> </ul> --- 124,137 ---- <li> gcc bug reporting guidelines:<br> ! <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html"> http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html</a> </li> <li> gcc mailing list archives:<br> ! <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html</a> </li> <li> cygwin (binutils, gdb and cygwin):<br> ! <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html">http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html</a><br> </li> </ul> *************** *** 157,167 **** <!--#include file="ssi/footer.html"--> <p> ! <a href= ! "http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"><img border="0" ! src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401" alt= ! "Valid HTML 4.01!" height="31" width="88"></a> <a href= ! 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Contains information about the MinGW runtime library and GNU/OSS development tools for MinGW."> ! <meta name="keywords" ! content="mingw, mingw32, programming, C++, C, C/C++, libraries, software, development tools, editors, IDEs, GNU"> ! <link href="mingw.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" title="MinGW"> ! <title>Download</title> ! </head> ! <body link="#000099" vlink="#990099" alink="#000099"> ! <h1 align="center">MinGW: Download</h1> ! <table class="prim" cellspacing="6" border="0"> ! <tbody> ! <tr> ! <td class="side"><!--#include file="ssi/lsidebar.html"--> <br> ! </td> ! <td> ! <table class="sec" cellspacing="6" border="0"> ! <tbody> ! <tr> ! <td><!-- ======================================================================= --><!-- --><!-- Main Body --><!-- --> ! <h2>Downloading MinGW</h2> ! <p> Development of MinGW is done within a framework of ! inter-related <i>packages</i>. There is a package for the MinGW ! runtime, packages for GCC and other tool ports, a package ! for the w32api, and so forth. All of these packages conform ! to a set of common conventions (internal layout, directory structure, ! naming scheme). The traditional method for installing MinGW ! was to create a directory for the installation, download the desired ! individual packages, and extract their contents into the installation ! directory (the common internal layout shared by the packages made this ! possible). </p> ! <p> However, in mid-2001 the team began publishing a ! single-archive "MinGW distribution"... bundling the latest versions of ! all individual packages available at the time of release. ! This was done partially to streamline the installation ! process for newbies, and partially to help application and ! library developers design products that will build using MinGW ! (previously MinGW was a moving target with all the constant updates to ! individual packages, but now it is easier to verify things as being ! "MinGW 1.0 compatible"). </p> ! <p> The individual packages making up the MinGW distribution ! are still produced and made available for download ! seperately. Updated versions of individual packages will ! sometimes be made available in between releases of the main ! MinGW distribution... in most cases it should be possible to extract a ! package's content into your MinGW directory to take advantage of the ! updates immediately. </p> ! <h3>Download location</h3> ! <p> The standard MinGW download page is hosted by <a ! target="_nw" ! href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435"> ! SourceForge</a>. This page contains the latest version of the main ! MinGW distribution archive, as well as all available pacakges files to ! download.<br> ! </p> ! <a name="download-release"></a><!--#include file="ssi/release.html"--> ! <h3>Mirror Sites</h3> ! <ul> ! <li> <a href="http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/"> ! http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/ </a> </li> ! <li> <a href="ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/mingw/">ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/mingw/</a> </li> ! <li> <a href="http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/mingw/"> ! http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/mingw/</a></li> ! </ul> ! <p>If you wish to mirror the MinGW distributions then ! please send a request to <a ! href="mailto:min...@li..."> ! min...@li...</a>.</p> ! <h3>Downloading the distribution</h3> ! <p> The naming scheme for the main MinGW distribution file ! is: </p> ! <blockquote> <tt> ! Mingw-<version>[-<stamp>].<tar.gz or zip> </tt> </blockquote> ! Where: ! <dl> ! <dt> <tt><version></tt> </dt> ! <dd> Arbitrarily chosen by the MinGW development team, the ! latest version at the time of this writing was 1.0.1. ! Major updates to the distribution will involve incrementing the ! most-significant digit in the version number, smaller updates will ! increment less-significant digits. </dd> ! <dt> <tt><stamp></tt> </dt> ! <dd> Always YYYYMMDD format, representing the date on ! which the distribution was bundled (not related to the ! timestamp or version of any component package. </dd> ! <dt> <tt><suffix></tt> </dt> ! <dd> File extension corresponding to the compression ! method used. We are using <tt>zip</tt> and/or <tt>tar.gz</tt>.</dd> ! </dl> ! <h3>Downloading packages</h3> ! <p> All the MinGW releases use consistent naming scheme: </p> ! <blockquote> <tt> ! <package_name>-<original_version>[-<stamp>].<suffix> </tt> </blockquote> ! Where: ! <dl> ! <dt> <tt><package_name></tt> </dt> ! <dd> Package name of this release. Package name is usually ! obtained from the official short software name. </dd> ! <dt> <tt><original_version></tt> </dt> ! <dd> Official software vesrion. Since most of MinGW ! packages is official GNU software, we don't control ! this field and take it as is from documentation or ! specification files. </dd> ! <dt> <tt><stamp></tt> </dt> ! <dd> Stamp is: ! <ul> ! <li> Always YYYYMMDD timestamp for non-production ! releases (i.e. alpha and beta releases). </li> ! <li> Sequental integer (release number) for official ! releases of ported software (i.e. software ! which we do not maintain). </li> ! <li> May not be present for our own packages (we ! increment version for them, not release number). </li> ! </ul> ! </dd> ! <dt> <tt><suffix></tt> </dt> ! <dd> File extension corresponding to the compression ! method used. We are using <tt>zip</tt> and/or <tt>tar.gz</tt>.</dd> ! </dl> ! For example, <tt>binutils-2.10.91-20001205.zip</tt> is a binutils ! (which are GNU Binary Utilities) 2.10.91 alpha or beta release made on ! 5th of December, 2000.<br> ! <br> ! <em><b>WinZip Caution:</b></em><br> ! Make sure that you first <b>uncheck</b> the "TAR file smart CR/LF ! conversion" checkbox found in the Configuration -> Miscellaneous tab ! of the Options menu. <br> ! <br> ! <em><a href="http://www.7-zip.org" target="_nw">7-Zip</a></em><br> ! <p>We've found that this zip/unzip utility is fast and ! reliable for differing compression algorithms. If you need a ! decompression utility, you should visit <a href="http://www.7-Zip.org" ! target="_nw">7-Zip</a> for the latest version. If you don't need a ! compression/decompression utility, I suggest you visit <a ! href="http://www.7-Zip.org" target="_nw">7-Zip</a> for one of the best ! compression algorithms available. <b> </b></p> ! <hr> ! <h2>Installing MinGW</h2> ! <span style="font-weight: bold;">Installing MinGW using ! MinGW-__VERSION__.exe:<br> ! </span><br> ! <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Summary for the ! click happy and impatient:</span><br> ! <ul> ! <li>Make sure you read and understand the License ! agreement.</li> ! <li>Accept all of the defaults unless you have reason not ! to (ie/ installation dir to c:\msys\__VERSION__\mingw for a combined ! MinGW/MSYS installation).</li> ! </ul> ! <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Detailed ! Instructions:</span><br> ! <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> ! <ol> ! <li>Download the latest MinGW binary executable.</li> ! <li>Run the executable.</li> ! <li>Click "<span style="text-decoration: underline;">N</span>ext" ! if you wish to continue with the installation.<br> ! </li> ! <li>Carefully read through the License Agreement.</li> ! <li>Click "<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Y</span>es" ! only if you agree with the terms of the license.</li> ! <li>Read through the Setup Info.</li> ! <li>Click "<span style="text-decoration: underline;">N</span>ext".</li> ! <li>Select your installation directory or accept the ! default.</li> ! <li>Click "<span style="text-decoration: underline;">N</span>ext".</li> ! <li>An architecture dialog will be displayed, accept the ! default.</li> ! <li>Click "<span style="text-decoration: underline;">N</span>ext".</li> ! <li>Review the installation summary go "<span ! style="text-decoration: underline;">B</span>ack" if necessary.</li> ! <li>Click "Install" to continue with the installation.</li> ! <li>A progress bar will be displayed indicating the ! current install progress.</li> ! <li>Upon completion click "<span ! style="text-decoration: underline;">N</span>ext"</li> ! <li>Click "<span style="text-decoration: underline;">F</span>inish" ! to finalize the installation.</li> ! </ol> ! <span style="font-weight: bold;">Normalizing MinGW with ! your build environment<br> ! <br> ! Windows Command prompt:<br> ! <br> ! </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Summary:</span><br> ! <ul> ! <li>set PATH=c:\__MinGW_Install_Dir__\bin;%PATH%</li> ! <li>test installation with "gcc -v"<br> ! </li> ! <li>add the above path to c:\autoexec.bat</li> ! </ul> ! <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Detailed ! Instructions:<br> ! </span> ! <ol> ! <li>run command.com (98 or ME) or cmd.exe (NT, 2000 or XP)</li> ! <li>type "set PATH=c:\__MinGW_Install_Dir__\bin;%PATH%", ! substituting __MinGW_Install_Dir__ with the directory path you installed ! MinGW into.</li> ! <li>type "gcc -v" and ensure that it outputs version ! information which will start similar to the following:<br> ! <pre> Reading specs from c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-mingw32/3.2.1/specs<br> </pre> ! </li> ! <li>To permanently set the path type "notepad ! c:\autoexec.bat" at the command prompt</li> ! <li>In notepad goto the last line and add the 'set PATH' ! command you typed in step 2.</li> ! <li>Save and close notepad.</li> ! </ol> ! <span style="font-weight: bold;">pre-MSYS:<br> ! </span><br> ! <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Summary:</span><br> ! <ul> ! <li>During the MSYS install specify your MinGW directory ! during the environment normalization</li> ! </ul> ! <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Detailed ! Instructions:<br> ! <span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span>Sorry ! on the todo list<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span ! style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><br> ! <br> ! </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">post-MSYS:<br> ! <br> ! </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Summary:<br> ! </span> ! <ul> ! <li>Start up msys, copy /etc/fstab.sample to /etc/fstab</li> ! <li>Edit /etc/fstab updating the location of your MinGW ! installation appropriately</li> ! </ul> ! <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Detailed ! Instructions:</span><br> ! Sorry on the todo list<br> ! <br> ! <span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span ! style="font-weight: bold;">Cygwin:<br> ! </span>Sorry on the todo list<br> ! <br> ! <span style="font-weight: bold;">Other:<br> ! </span>Please submit to suggestions as a patch.<!-- End of Main Body --> </td> ! </tr> ! <tr> ! <td style="vertical-align: top;"><br> ! </td> ! </tr> ! </tbody> ! </table> ! </td> ! </tr> ! </tbody> ! </table> ! <!--#include file="ssi/bottombar.html"--><!--#include file="ssi/footer.html"--> ! <p> <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"><img border="0" ! src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401" alt="Valid HTML 4.01!" ! height="31" width="88"></a> <a ! href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/"> <img ! style="border: 0pt none ; width: 88px; height: 31px;" ! src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss" alt="Valid CSS!"></a> </p> ! <address> <br> ! Last revised $Date$ </address> ! </body> </html> --- 1,502 ---- <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> ! <head> ! <meta content= ! "HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 1st February 2003), see www.w3.org" ! name="generator"> ! <meta http-equiv="content-type" content= ! "text/html; charset=us-ascii"> ! <meta name="description" content= ! "Home of MinGW -- Minimalist GNU for Windows -- project. Contains information about the MinGW runtime library and GNU/OSS development tools for MinGW."> ! <meta name="keywords" content= ! "mingw, mingw32, programming, C++, C, C/C++, libraries, software, development tools, editors, IDEs, GNU"> ! <link href="mingw.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" ! title="MinGW"> ! <title> ! Download ! </title> ! <style type="text/css"> ! :link { color: #000099 } ! :visited { color: #990099 } ! :active { color: #000099 } ! img.c5 {border: 0pt none ; width: 88px; height: 31px;} ! td.c4 {vertical-align: top;} ! </style> ! </head> ! <body> ! <h1> ! MinGW: Download ! </h1> ! <table class="prim" cellspacing="6" border="0"> ! <tbody> ! <tr> ! <td class="side"> ! <!--#include file="ssi/lsidebar.html"--><br> ! ! </td> ! <td> ! <table class="sec" cellspacing="6" border="0"> ! <tbody> ! <tr> ! <td> ! <!-- ======================================================================= --><!-- --><!-- Main Body --><!-- --> ! <h2> ! Downloading MinGW ! </h2> ! <p> ! Development of MinGW is done within a ! framework of inter-related <i>packages</i>. ! There is a package for the MinGW runtime, ! packages for GCC and other tool ports, a ! package for the w32api, and so forth. All of ! these packages conform to a set of common ! conventions (internal layout, directory ! structure, naming scheme). The traditional ! method for installing MinGW was to create a ! directory for the installation, download the ! desired individual packages, and extract ! their contents into the installation ! directory (the common internal layout shared ! by the packages made this possible). ! </p> ! <p> ! However, in mid-2001 the team began ! publishing a single-archive "MinGW ! distribution"... bundling the latest versions ! of all individual packages available at the ! time of release. This was done partially to ! streamline the installation process for ! newbies, and partially to help application ! and library developers design products that ! will build using MinGW (previously MinGW was ! a moving target with all the constant updates ! to individual packages, but now it is easier ! to verify things as being "MinGW 1.0 ! compatible"). ! </p> ! <p> ! The individual packages making up the MinGW ! distribution are still produced and made ! available for download seperately. Updated ! versions of individual packages will ! sometimes be made available in between ! releases of the main MinGW distribution... in ! most cases it should be possible to extract a ! package's content into your MinGW directory ! to take advantage of the updates immediately. ! </p> ! <h3> ! Download location ! </h3> ! <p> ! The standard MinGW download page is hosted by ! <a target="_nw" href= ! "http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435"> ! SourceForge</a>. This page contains the ! latest version of the main MinGW distribution ! archive, as well as all available pacakges ! files to download. ! </p><a name="download-release"></a> ! <!--#include file="ssi/release.html"--> ! ! <h3> ! Mirror Sites ! </h3> ! <ul> ! <li> ! <a href= ! "http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/">http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/</a> ! </li> ! <li> ! <a href= ! "ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/mingw/">ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/mingw/</a> ! </li> ! <li> ! <a href= ! "http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/mingw/">http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/mingw/</a> ! </li> ! </ul> ! <p> ! If you wish to mirror the MinGW distributions ! then please send a request to <a href= ! "mailto:min...@li..."> ! min...@li...</a>. ! </p> ! <h3> ! Downloading the distribution ! </h3> ! <p> ! The naming scheme for the main MinGW ! distribution file is: ! </p> ! <blockquote> ! <tt>Mingw-<version>[-<stamp>].<tar.gz ! or zip></tt> ! </blockquote>Where: ! <dl> ! <dt> ! <tt><version></tt> ! </dt> ! <dd> ! Arbitrarily chosen by the MinGW development ! team, the latest version at the time of ! this writing was 1.0.1. Major updates to ! the distribution will involve incrementing ! the most-significant digit in the version ! number, smaller updates will increment ! less-significant digits. ! </dd> ! <dt> ! <tt><stamp></tt> ! </dt> ! <dd> ! Always YYYYMMDD format, representing the ! date on which the distribution was bundled ! (not related to the timestamp or version of ! any component package. ! </dd> ! <dt> ! <tt><suffix></tt> ! </dt> ! <dd> ! File extension corresponding to the ! compression method used. We are using ! <tt>zip</tt> and/or <tt>tar.gz</tt>. ! </dd> ! </dl> ! <h3> ! Downloading packages ! </h3> ! <p> ! All the MinGW releases use consistent naming ! scheme: ! </p> ! <blockquote> ! <tt><package_name>-<original_version>[-<stamp>].<suffix></tt> ! </blockquote>Where: ! <dl> ! <dt> ! <tt><package_name></tt> ! </dt> ! <dd> ! Package name of this release. Package name ! is usually obtained from the official short ! software name. ! </dd> ! <dt> ! <tt><original_version></tt> ! </dt> ! <dd> ! Official software vesrion. Since most of ! MinGW packages is official GNU software, we ! don't control this field and take it as is ! from documentation or specification files. ! </dd> ! <dt> ! <tt><stamp></tt> ! </dt> ! <dd> ! Stamp is: ! <ul> ! <li> ! Always YYYYMMDD timestamp for ! non-production releases (i.e. alpha and ! beta releases). ! </li> ! <li> ! Sequental integer (release number) for ! official releases of ported software ! (i.e. software which we do not ! maintain). ! </li> ! <li> ! May not be present for our own packages ! (we increment version for them, not ! release number). ! </li> ! </ul> ! </dd> ! <dt> ! <tt><suffix></tt> ! </dt> ! <dd> ! File extension corresponding to the ! compression method used. We are using ! <tt>zip</tt> and/or <tt>tar.gz</tt>. ! </dd> ! </dl>For example, ! <tt>binutils-2.10.91-20001205.zip</tt> is a ! binutils (which are GNU Binary Utilities) ! 2.10.91 alpha or beta release made on 5th of ! December, 2000.<br> ! <br> ! <em><b>WinZip Caution:</b></em><br> ! Make sure that you first <b>uncheck</b> the ! "TAR file smart CR/LF conversion" checkbox ! found in the Configuration -> Miscellaneous ! tab of the Options menu.<br> ! <br> ! <em><a href="http://www.7-zip.org" target= ! "_nw">7-Zip</a></em><br> ! ! <p> ! We've found that this zip/unzip utility is ! fast and reliable for differing compression ! algorithms. If you need a decompression ! utility, you should visit <a href= ! "http://www.7-Zip.org" target="_nw">7-Zip</a> ! for the latest version. If you don't need a ! compression/decompression utility, I suggest ! you visit <a href="http://www.7-Zip.org" ! target="_nw">7-Zip</a> for one of the best ! compression algorithms available. ! </p> ! <hr> ! <h2> ! Installing MinGW ! </h2><span class="bold">Installing MinGW using ! MinGW-__VERSION__.exe:<br></span><br> ! <span class="underline">Summary for the click happy ! and impatient:</span><br> ! ! <ul> ! <li> ! Make sure you read and understand the ! License agreement. ! </li> ! <li> ! Accept all of the defaults unless you have ! reason not to (ie/ installation dir to ! c:\msys\__VERSION__\mingw for a combined ! MinGW/MSYS installation). ! </li> ! </ul><span class="underline">Detailed ! Instructions:</span><br> ! ! <ol> ! <li> ! Download the latest MinGW binary ! executable. ! </li> ! <li> ! Run the executable. ! </li> ! <li> ! Click "<span class="underline">N</span>ext" if you ! wish to continue with the installation.<br> ! </li> ! <li> ! Carefully read through the License ! Agreement. ! </li> ! <li> ! Click "<span class="underline">Y</span>es" only if ! you agree with the terms of the license. ! </li> ! <li> ! Read through the Setup Info. ! </li> ! <li> ! Click "<span class="underline">N</span>ext". ! </li> ! <li> ! Select your installation directory or ! accept the default. ! </li> ! <li> ! Click "<span class="underline">N</span>ext". ! </li> ! <li> ! An architecture dialog will be displayed, ! accept the default. ! </li> ! <li> ! Click "<span class="underline">N</span>ext". ! </li> ! <li> ! Review the installation summary go ! "<span class="underline">B</span>ack" if ! necessary. ! </li> ! <li> ! Click "Install" to continue with the ! installation. ! </li> ! <li> ! A progress bar will be displayed indicating ! the current install progress. ! </li> ! <li> ! Upon completion click "<span class= ! "underline">N</span>ext" ! </li> ! <li> ! Click "<span class="underline">F</span>inish" to ! finalize the installation. ! </li> ! </ol><span class="bold"><span class= ! "bold">Installing MinGW package ! updates:</span></span><br> ! <br> ! <span class="underline">Summary:</span><br> ! ! <ul> ! <li> ! Unpack the mingw tarball into the root of ! your mingw installation (ie/ C:\mingw). ! </li> ! </ul><span class="underline">Detailed ! Instructions:</span><br> ! Sory on the todo list<br> ! <span class="bold"><br> ! Normalizing MinGW with your build ! environment<br> ! <br> ! Windows Command prompt:<br> ! <br></span> <span class= ! "underline">Summary:</span><br> ! ! <ul> ! <li> ! set ! PATH=c:\__MinGW_Install_Dir__\bin;%PATH% ! </li> ! <li> ! test installation with "gcc -v"<br> ! </li> ! <li> ! add the above path to c:\autoexec.bat ! </li> ! </ul><span class="underline">Detailed ! Instructions:<br></span> ! <ol> ! <li> ! Run command.com (98 or ME) or cmd.exe (NT, ! 2000 or XP). ! </li> ! <li> ! Type "set ! PATH=c:\__MinGW_Install_Dir__\bin;%PATH%", ! substituting __MinGW_Install_Dir__ with the ! directory path you installed MinGW into. ! </li> ! <li> ! Type "gcc -v" and ensure that it outputs ! version information which will start ! similar to the following:<br> ! ! <pre> ! Reading specs from c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-mingw32/3.2.1/specs<br> ! </pre> ! </li> ! <li> ! To permanently set the path type "notepad ! c:\autoexec.bat" at the command prompt. ! </li> ! <li> ! In notepad goto the last line and add the ! 'set PATH' command you typed in step 2. ! </li> ! <li> ! Save and close notepad. ! </li> ! </ol><span class="bold">pre-MSYS:<br></span><br> ! <span class="underline">Summary:</span><br> ! ! <ul> ! <li> ! During the MSYS install specify your MinGW ! directory during the environment ! normalization ! </li> ! </ul><span class="underline">Detailed ! Instructions:<br></span> Sorry on the todo ! list<span class="underline"><br> ! <br></span> <span class="bold">post-MSYS:<br> ! <br></span> <span class= ! "underline">Summary:<br></span> ! <ul> ! <li> ! Start up msys, copy /etc/fstab.sample to ! /etc/fstab ! </li> ! <li> ! Edit /etc/fstab updating the location of ! your MinGW installation appropriately ! </li> ! </ul><span class="underline">Detailed ! Instructions:</span><br> ! ! <ol> ! <li> ! Start MSYS. ! </li> ! <li> ! Type "cd /etc". ! </li> ! <li> ! Type "cp fstab.sample fstab". ! </li> ! <li> ! Type "notepad fstab". ! </li> ! <li> ! If necessary modify the ! 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