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I used Mingw_get_inst and installed the MinGW compiler suite following the instructions on the howto page. I used the GUI installer. I then changed the path to include C:MingW; . When I go to Start menu -> all programs -> MingW the only file that exists inside of there is a uninstaller. The howto page says a shell should be there... can someone help me get this working?
Howto page on Mingw.org: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started
Aza4 Answers
Look at the install logs for your Mingw.
I have 2 bin dirs in my (single) installation of Mingw
and
A lot has changed about Mingw in the last 2-3 years and I think some documentation you might find easily via google is out-of-date.
Try asking for help at mingw mail groups via Nabble (very easy to use)
IHTH
shelltershelltersimply you could run it from the following batch file:
e.g. C:MinGWmsys1.0msys.bat (if you installed your mingw in c drive)
for more info. about mysys, check this
Theodore R. SmithAdding the shell link is easy if you have MSYS installed.
Mingw Installer For Windows 10
Open your Start menu and right-click on 'All Program' and choose either 'Open' or 'Open All Users' depending on which you want to set the shortcut for. Open the MinGW folder if it already exists, or create it (or an MSYS folder, as you wish) if it does not.
Open another Explorer window and navigate to your MSYS folder, in the default installation this is C:MinGWmsys1.0
Right-drag msys.bat from the MSYS explorer window to the start menu explorer window. Choose 'Create shortcut' when prompted as to what you wish to do. Optionally, you may want to change the shortcut to use one of the MSYS icons from the MSYS folder.
According to older MSYS documentation, the shortcut should be set to start in the MSYS bin folder, in the default installation this is C:MinGWmsys1.0bin. I'm not certain of what happens if you don't do this; the shell opens either way.
Et voilà! You now have a shell link for MSYS in your Start menu.
If you didn't have the shortcut, the other postinstall bits may not have run either. The easy way to check this is to look in C:MinGWmsys1.0etc (or the appropriate path for your installation). If there is an fstab file, then the postinstall bits ran appropriately. If not, then go to C:MinGWmsys1.0postinstall and run pi.bat. This will make the mingw folder available from the msys shell. Things won't work right without doing this.
Update from March 2018: The MSYS postinstall is now a Lua script, and it won't create a shortcut by default. Best I can tell, you now must do so manually in all cases.
Look for the postinstall directory, run the batch file pi.bat in there andanswer the file path questions with the correct case sensitivity.Then gcc is found.
CNTRL-SHIFT click and drag the msys shortcut onto the desktop.
This fixes it.
Mingw Windows 10 X86
Pity the installation script is broken...