***BOGO*** Re: [Mingw-msys] Trying to build MSYS according to the Howto

[Brian Dessent <brian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Torsten Schlabach wrote:

> I just don't know how to install them as developers had waived the
> installer.

They're just tarballs.  They extract into the root directory, e.g. tar
jx -C / -f filename.tar.bz2.

Note that with the autotools there are two "flavors":

A) The MSYS-linked ones, which are to be used when *building* MSYS apps:

autoconf-2.61-MSYS-1.0.11.tar.bz2
automake-1.10-MSYS-1.0.11.tar.bz2
libtool1.5-1.5.25a-20070701-MSYS-1.0.11.tar.bz2
libiconv-1.11-MSYS-1.0.11.tar.bz2
gettext-0.16.1-MSYS-1.0.11.tar.bz2
gettext-devel-0.16.1-MSYS-1.0.11.tar.bz2

These are the analogs to what you'd find in the old msysDVLPR bundle. 
These install in /usr.

B) The "native" versions which install in /usr/local and are intended to
be used when *building* MinGW apps:

autoconf-4-1-bin.tar.bz2
autoconf2.1-2.13-3-bin.tar.bz2
autoconf2.5-2.61-1-bin.tar.bz2
automake-3-1-bin.tar.bz2
automake1.9-1.9.6-2-bin.tar.bz2
automake1.10-1.10-1-bin.tar.bz2
libtool1.5-1.5.25a-1-bin.tar.bz2
libtool1.5-1.5.25a-1-dll.tar.bz2
libiconv-1.11-1-bin.tar.bz2
libiconv-1.11-1-dll.tar.bz2
gettext-0.16.1-1-bin.tar.bz2
gettext-0.16.1-1-dll.tar.bz2

These come with wrapper scripts that do version detection, which allows
for multiple versions to be installed side by side (i.e. all of the
above work together.)

References:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=540763&group_id=2435
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/23921

Brian

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