On 6/28/10 9:23 AM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
Installing Linux is still a LOT easier than installing a working MSYS
since you get proper package management with proper dependency
resolution, while with MSYS, you end up downloading dozens of different
inter-dependent GNU packages one-by-one until anything works. At least
that's what it looked like a couple of months ago.
Granted, cygwin has a nice installer.
Huh?
The hardest part about installing msys is adding mingw-get to the PATH.
Then you just "mingw-get install mingwrt w32api binutils gcc" and you
have your basic environment done. If there's something you want in
addition, say gdb, you just mingw-get install gdb. You don't have to
pick and choose various interdependent packages. It does allt he
dependency stuff for the packages it can handle.
Now, mingw-get is a bit newish (though I don't know when they came out
with it), but before that you only had to pick and choose packages IIRC
if you decided you wanted a really minimal msys. You could get a basic
'meh, basically everything normal' and just run with it and have nearly
everything you'd expect in a bash-command-line sort of environment.
mingw-get. That might be exactly the tool I wish I'd had. Does it
install MSYS as well or only strictly MinGW components? To quote the
information I did have (which is still on the MinGW homepage):
"""Currently, the best way to download MSYS is to choose the MSYS
components you want from the download page and to extract them one by
one in an empty directory."""
Umm, I'm confused now.
I have no idea, I think perhaps I last installed msys itself with the
full-installer bit, and have since added certain mingw components with
mingw-get, but I have no idea.
Except I swear that's not what happened.
I don't know, I retract all claims, and am going to go back to my OSX
Terminal.app :)
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