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Subject: setup-mingw.bat - a simple batch MinGW installer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user Date: Tuesday 22nd September 2009 08:23:02 UTC (over 8 years ago) For those missing a "real, nice, pretty, GUI" installer for the current set of MinGW packages, and maybe also for those who prefer the command line or want to customize what is installed: http://crosswire.org/~jmarsden/setup-mingw.html describes and links to a setup-mingw.bat file I have written that does a basic MinGW and MSYS installation, plus a bunch of "extra" stuff if you need that. It's not pretty, interactive, or graphical! But if it helps someone else get started downloading and installing MinGW and MSYS in the absence of a current official installer, without having to sit at the computer clicking on far too many links on http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/ ... well, here it is :) Once you have a basic MSYS installed this way, you can use it to generate a current list of all the MinGW packages on that page: wget -q -O- http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/ |grep tar \ |grep href |sed -e 's/^.*href="//' -e 's%/download"$%%' -e 's%^.*/%%' \ |grep tar |sort |uniq >mingw-files.txt You can edit this list (it is currently over 600 packages long!) and add the ones you are interested in to a file setup-mingw-extra-files.txt and re-run setup-mingw.bat, and you'll download and install those, too. A sample (much shorter!) list of files is linked to from the web page mentioned earlier. I can't help feeling that overall it is clearer/easier/more in the spirit of open source to give others a short script (batch) file, and maybe a list of extra files, than to tar up a large tree of stuff, transfer that large file to them, and say "here, untar this" :) Suggestions for improvement welcomed (within reason... it's never going to be pretty or graphical, and I don't want it to be interactive -- I want to be able to start it and walk away while it does all the work!). In case it needs to be said: setup-mingw.bat is totally unofficial, and not in any way a part of the MinGW project itself. Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ MinGW-users mailing list [email protected] This list observes the Etiquette found at http://www.mingw.org/Mailing_Lists. We ask that you be polite and do the same. Most annoying abuses are: 1) Top posting 2) Thread hijacking 3) HTML/MIME encoded mail 4) Improper quoting 5) Improper trimming _______________________________________________ You may change your MinGW Account Options or unsubscribe at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-users |
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