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From: Earnie B. <ear...@ya...> - 2000-12-22 15:41:53
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--- Jan-Oliver Wagner <ja...@in...> 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 > I will be rectifying this link shortly. It does not fit the format for the rest of the site. > (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. > All of this is a big concern, and the who of us that are working on it are limited in time. There is no commercial backing in MinGW, so there is no full time support. > 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 > Well, the mailing list is the best place to send this. However, the who page will updated after the download page is written. > 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/? > The http://mingw.org/ designation isn't in any public DNS. > Good luck with the further development of mingw! > Thanks, would you be interested in volunteering your spare time in the future development? Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:ear...@ya... --- <http://earniesystems.safeshopper.com> --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows <http://gw32.freeyellow.com/> --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows <http://www.mingw.org/> --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ |