On 2016-07-03 12:49+0100 Arthur Tacca wrote: > Hi Alan, > > I'm not an MSYS2 developer, but by looking at my installation I found the > URLs of the package repositories. By definition, this is always the very > most accurate information, although it's not as nicely formatted as the wiki > page. Here are the URLs: > > http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/x86_64/ > http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/ > > If you want a preview of what's ahead, you can also look in the Github > repositories. I have no idea when these are pushed into the main > repositories. > > https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages > https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages
Thanks, Arthur, for those extremely useful URL's. Which naturally leads to more questions. :-) The mingw/x86_64 version has cmake, make and compiler packages as does the msys/x86_64 version. Following what I know concerning traditional MinGW/MSYS (which, by the way, does work for me with wine so I do have some experience with it), I assume that unpackaged native Windows software (such as a build of PLplot) can be built EITHER with the mingw/x86_64 versions of cmake, etc., using the cmake "MinGW Makefiles" generator OR the msys/x86_64 versions of cmake, etc. with the "MSYS Makefiles" generator. I also assume the mingw/x86_64 make version uses a native Windows CMD environment to build software while the msys/x86_64 make version uses a bash shell environment to build software. However, could someone confirm these educated guesses for me? I also notice the maximum CMake version supplied by mingw/x86_64 is 3.4.1 while the maximum CMake version supplied by msys/x86_64 is 3.5.2. Is there any particular reason why the mingw/x86_64 packaging of cmake is falling behind the msys/x86_64 packaging of cmake in this regard? (CMake development is quite active so there is a substantial difference in both features and bug fixes between 3.4.1 and 3.5.2 even though the release dates of those two versions are not that far apart). Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Attend Shape: An AT&T Tech Expo July 15-16. Meet us at AT&T Park in San Francisco, CA to explore cutting-edge tech and listen to tech luminaries present their vision of the future. This family event has something for everyone, including kids. Get more information and register today. http://sdm.link/attshape _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
