[Mingw-users] Zip-File with complete installation of MinGw

[Georg F. <fu...@is...>]

You can find on
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/incoming/
a zip-file "MinGw.zip" with a complete installation of MinGw.
( Also make(3.78) and Tcl(8.3) ). The installation is made of the files from 
Mumit's last snapshot (Feb. 2000).

To use:
Create an directory with an arbitary name (maybe C:\MinGw).
Unzip the the the File MinGw.zip in this directory. Include the directory
C:\MinGw\bin in your path.
 
Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I planned to test mingw as an development environment for
> Windows. Being a Free Software developer I am not too
> familiar with windows but, alas, sometimes you can not
> get around that OS.
> 
> To make it short: I was not able to perform the quick
> evaluation test.
> 
> To let you know I list the items that occured:
> 
> - what should be downloaded?
>         The download link goes to sourceforge, but
>         the files listed there are not in sync with what is
>         described on the link for the "latest development snapshot".
>         The latter
>         (ftp://ftp.nanotech.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/snapshots/gcc-2.95.2-1/)
>         is not exactly in sync with the installation description again,
>         but fits better.
> 
> - how to install?
>         The corresponding FAQ is very short and (see above) out of sync with
>         the downbloadable files. What I am missing is a quick guide to
>         "Hello World".
> 
> - missing tools?
>         The installation guide results in a installation without make, tar
>         and a shell.
>         While the latter is not that important, how should I unpack the
>         tar.gz updates?
> 
> I am pretty sure that I will get the mingw up and running if I spend
> some time in it (you provide lots of documents).
> I like your basic idea, but propose to make it easier
> to just start with. Once started people will spend more time with it
> an learn.
> 
> And finally: I intended to send this not to the mailing list,
> but the place where I expected to have a contact for the team
> was empty: http://www.mingw.org/who.shtml
> 
> And the very last question:
> Why the hell do I get lots of animated pictures etc when I go
> to http://mingw.org/ instead of http://www.mingw.org/?
> 
> Good luck with the further development of mingw!
> 
> Cheers
> 
>         Jan
> 
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