[Insight-users] Problems building itk under MinGW

[Bill Lorensen]

I installed msys and mingw on two machines a couple of years ago. I
don't recall any editing of files being required.

Maybe someone else can share their experience. You must get by this
step 1 before we can proceed.

Bill

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:46 PM, URI <zallen at wheelinghospital.com> wrote:
>
> Ah I see, I thought you meant that msys was a part of MinGW.
>
> Ok, I followed the directions as best I could.  I already have MinGW
> installed so I skipped the first step where it says "If you haven't already
> installed MinGW on your system".
>
> Then I went for MSYS 1.0.11.  It installed with no problem, but the
> instructions say "Next, the post install process will ask for the directory
> where MinGW was installed to. "  This didn't happen, but I checked the
> "C:\msys\1.0\etc\" directory and found a file named fstab.sample and it has
> "c:/mingw /mingw" in it (there is no java directory though, if that's
> relevant).  I made a copy of this file and renamed it to just "fstab" since
> this seems to be what the instructions say the filename should be.
>
> Msys DTK installed with no problem.
>
> Second, the link for Msys Core 1.0.11 does not work.  Instead I found the
> Core files here, which I hope is the same thing:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20Base%20System/
>
> I set my HOME variable as instructed and tried to run msys.bat from the
> C:\msys\1.0 directory.  There is a terminal window that pops up and then
> disappears right away, I can't read what it says.  The same thing happens if
> I run msys.bat from a command prompt.
>
> It seems like nothing wants to work for me.
>
>
>
> Bill Lorensen wrote:
>>
>> Find instructions on installing msys here:
>> http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM, URI <zallen at wheelinghospital.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Bill-
>>>
>>> I don't appear to be able to do so.  I opened a terminal window,
>>> navigated
>>> to my C:\MinGW directory and typed "msys.bat" but it comes back
>>> "unrecognized command".  I also searched the directory and there is no
>>> msys.bat file in any of the subfolders.
>>>
>>> I installed MinGW by running the installer found here:
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/MinGW%205.1.6/MinGW-5.1.6.exe/download
>>>
>>> Am I missing something?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Let's take small steps.
>>>
>>> 1) You should do all of your work from an Msys shell. It it is called
>>> msys.bat. Can you start the msys shell?
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
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