Re: [Msys2-users] MinGW - MSYS2 interraction

[Bill L. <Bi...@WR...>]

Thank you, that answered a lot of questions.

As a newcomer to the world of MinGW, nowhere was it said that you didn't 
need to first install MinGW and then MSYS2. It would be VERY helpful for 
others that follow to make this a prominent message on the MSYS2 web 
pages and the MinGW pages as well.

Regards,

Bill Lee
On 01/05/2015 11:33 AM, Jonathan Baecker wrote:
> Am 05.01.2015 um 18:24 schrieb Bill Lee:
>> My first attempt at installing and using MinGW on a Windows7 platform
>> involved downloading MinGW and using the mingw-get application. As best
>> as I can tell that properly loaded MinGW32 and MSYS since MSYS2 is not
>> an option.
>>
>> At Pete Batard's suggestion I downloaded a fresh copy of mingw-w64 and
>> installed it, followed by a download of MSYS2. This is where the fun began!
>>
>> 1) Where in the directory hierarchy of the minGW64 should the MSYS2 be
>> loaded? r should it even BE IN the MinGW hierarchy?
>>
>> 2) How do I resolve the fact that between the MinGW install and the
>> MSYS2 install there are several(!) 'lib' 'include' 'bin' 'and so-forth"
>> floating around, bits and pieces of :stuff: that you need to work with
>> floating everywhere.
>>
>> As an example: I open a command window in MSYS2 (very nice bash
>> implementation, much better than the MSYS version). But none of the
>> compilers are visible! A "which g++" returns not found. But the compiler
>> IS there, in a /bin directory located somewhere in the minGW hierarchy!
>>
>> 3) Is there a comparable tool t mingw-get that operates with the
>> MinGW64/MSYS2 combination? Yes, I know of pacman and used it for the
>> MSYS2 effort, but is there a pacman-like tool for the whole thing? Like
>> mingw-get? And if not, why not and what does a poor user have to do to
>> work around the lack?
> You don't need to install both separate. Install MSYS2 run
> msys2_shell.bat and type "pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain" for the
> 32bit compilers or "pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain" for the 64bit
> compilers. There is also many other packages for this you can take a
> look at: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages all this you can
> install with pacman. After install the mingw-w64 compiler you can run
> "mingw32_shell.bat" or "mingw64_shell.bat" for compiling.
>
> Regards
> Jonathan
>
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