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RelocatableHOWTOforMinGW

Posted May 17th, 2009 by Hibou57

HOWTO Understanding effects of build directory options on a relocatable MinGW GCC default's paths

1 Summury and purpose of this document

Although there are nor big TODO remaining for this document, some updates are still pending

HOWTO Specify the Location of Libraries for use with MinGW

Posted March 23rd, 2009 by keith

FIXME: Page under construction; some value here now, but not yet complete.

I will add to this as time permits; please bear with me. My intent is to offer advice, complementing the information relating to include file search paths, on circumventing the limitations of MinGW's GCC when installing, and subsequently linking with, user added function libraries.

How do I install MSYS?

Posted December 1st, 2008 by mingwadmin

These instructions were based on the Enlightenment Wiki. Thanks to Vincent Torri for pointing them out.

The total size of the installation of MSYS/MinGW is around 110 MB. Be sure to have enough space on your hard disk.

Install MinGW

Posted August 31st, 2008 by SteveChapel

For instructions on how to quickly download and install MinGW (including GCC compilers for C, C++, Fortran, Java, and Ada, binutils, Windows API, runtime, and make), please refer to the instructions for Getting Started with MinGW. For more detailed instructions, read HOWTO Install the MinGW GCC Compiler Suite.

HOWTO Install the MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite

Posted July 25th, 2008 by mingwadmin

Automated Installer

If you are new to MinGW, see the instructions for Getting Started with MinGW to use the automated GUI and command line installers. If you prefer a very manual installation, continue with the instructions on this page.

MSYS

Posted January 18th, 2008 by jonY

MSYS is a collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and grep to allow building of applications and programs which depend on traditionally UNIX tools to be present. It is intended to supplement MinGW and the deficiencies of the cmd shell.

An example would be building a library that uses the autotools build system. Users will typically run "./configure" then "make" to build it. The configure shell script requires a shell script interpreter which is not present on Windows systems, but provided by MSYS.

Getting Started

Posted May 22nd, 2007 by julienlecomte

MinGW Installation Notes

MinGW may have problems with paths containing spaces, and if not, usually other programs used with MinGW will experience problems with such paths. Thus, we strongly recommend that you do not install MinGW in any location with spaces in the path name reference; i.e. you should avoid installing into any subdirectory of "Program Files" or "My Documents", or the like.

No version numbering convention exists for MinGW as a whole. Each package has its own version number, and the installer version number does not necessarily reflect the version number of any individual package which it installs.