Re: [Mingw-msys] Ascertaining whether MSYS is installed?

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On 5:44:29 pm 2005-05-25 Angus Leeming <le...@ly...> wrote:
> Is there a recommended way to ascertain whether MSYS is installed? (I
> want an installer to tell the user to install MSYS if it isn't
> already present.)
>
> I see that Earnie stated (Jan 2003) that "No! MSYS does not modify
> the registry." http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2
> 944956
>
> and, indeed, I've been unable to find anything obvious in it.
>
> Is there another way or should I just ask the user?
> Angus
>

Check the list of applications that are available for uninstall in the
registry.

Currently a msys.ini file is store in the windows directory.  That is
likely to change in some future version as there are those that cannot
write to the windows directory.  When that change occurs the registry will
contain the information.  That change will not happen soon.

Earnie