[Mingw-msys] [mingw - MSYS] RE: Installation of MSYS

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By: roffsen

Earnie; Your suggestion with the 8.3 file syntax helped me too to get beyond
the problem dreadmore faced. Thanks! :-)


But now, after having installed both MinGW and MSYS by specifying the installation
paths in 8.3 syntax (wich seems to have succeeded), I'm facing another problem.

If I navigate to the directory containing the msys.bat and click on that file,
I expect some kind of command window to open with a Unix-like command environment
(although I'm not shure if this expectaion is adequate, as this is the first
time I try to install and use these tools), but instead a pop-up shows up  (in
addition to a CMD.exe Window) displaying this message:

+-------------------------------------------------+
|W:\Program                                                      |
+-------------------------------------------------+
| Cannot find the file 'W:\Program' (or one of its
| components. Make sure the path and filename are
| correct and that all required libraries are available.
|
|                               OK 
+-------------------------------------------------+

I've traced this a little, and the MSYS.bat seems to expand the statement: 'if
"x%WD%" == "x" set WD=%~dp0\bin\' to 'set WD=W:\Program Files\MinGW\1.0\bin\'
(also not the double back-slashes; which of course should not have an impact
on this).

This leads to an error message in the CMD window, telling: "The system cannot
find the path specified.".

Thereafter it displays the pop-up when it reaches the 'start %WD%rxvt -backspacekey
^H -sl 2500 -fg %FGCOLOR% -bg %BGCOLOR% -sr -fn Courier-12 -tn msys -geometry
80x25 -e /bin/sh --login -i' statement.

And finally outputting "The system cannot find the file W:\Program." before
the CMD.exe Window exits.


Now, what I have tried instead (in order to avoid having a blank in the path)
is to replace the 'if "x%WD%" == "x" set WD=%~dp0\bin\' statement by hard-wiring
the 8.3 path into the WD variable.

This has brought me further; at least a little bit.

After hard-wiring the CMD.exe Shell/Window launches a new CMD.exe Shell/Window
(w/ 'w:/Progra~-I\1.0\bin\rxvt.exe' in it's title) and emediately exits.

Now, why that happens, I don't seem to be able figure out. :-/

Please help!

My Environment is:

Windows/NT sp6a

MinGW 3.1.0-1.exe            ( w:/Program Files/MinGW/ )
MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1 ( w: Program Files/MinGW/1.0/ )


Best Regards,
Rolf

BTW, Could I have installed MSYS in the MinGW directory directly with the 1.0.11
snap-shot of MSYS?


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