Re: [Msys2-users] MinGW - MSYS2 interraction

[Ray D. <min...@gm...>]

I'm not sure listing things not to do is an advisable way to spend our
time. It might take forever.Besides as I detailed, people are free to use
mingw-builds' mingw-w64 toolchains with the MSYS2 shell if they want to.
On 5 Jan 2015 20:54, "Bill Lee" <Bi...@wr...> wrote:

> 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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