HOWTO by Andreas Persson HOWTO by Andreas PerssonDownload the MinGW installer, MinGW-5.1.4.exe, -from www.mingw.org and run it.
+from www.mingw.org and run it. The +installer will automatically download and install further +packages. Choose the base tools and the g++ compiler.Download from "MSYS Base System, Technology Preview: MSYS-1.0.11":
-msysCORE-1.0.11-20080826.tar.gz -bash-3.1-MSYS-1.0.11-1.tar.bz2+
msysCORE-1.0.11-20080826.tar.gz-
Unpack these to a directory of your choice, for example C:\msys. As +
Unpack the file to a directory of your choice, for example C:\msys. As 1.0.11 doesn't have an installer yet, you need to have an unpacker that supports tar.gz/tar.bz, for example 7-Zip. The rest of the files you can unpack with the tar included in msysCORE.
@@ -87,11 +88,6 @@Run the postinstall\pi.bat file and specify your MinGW directory.
-Download, also from "MSYS Base System, Technology Preview: -MSYS-1.0.11":
- -gawk-3.1.5-MSYS-1.0.11-1.tar.bz2 **-
Download from "MSYS Supplementary Tools, Technology Preview: Tools for MSYS-1.0.11":
@@ -109,12 +105,6 @@ libtool1.5-1.5.25a-1-bin.tar.bz2 perl-5.6.1-MSYS-1.0.11-1.tar.bz2 *** -Download from "MSYS Supplementary Tools, Current Release: -msysDTK-1.0.1":
- -m4-1.4.7-MSYS.tar.bz2 **- -
Extract all these files to the msys directory, by starting msys, do "cd /" followed by "tar xjf filename" for .tar.bz2 files and "tar xzf filename" for .tar.gz files.