***BOGO*** Re: [Mingw-msys] MSYS not working in Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (2003, service pack 2)

[Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please do not top post.  FTR, I delete top posted messages, unread, 
after I've made the first such request of the poster.

On Wednesday 19 March 2008 18:00, Chris Bielow wrote:
[I've moved his top posted message, to where it belongs]
>
> whatis neveritis schrieb:
> > P.S I tried msys with both MinGW32 and MinGW64, to do so I
> > installed MinGW using two different methods:
> >
> > - 1: running: "MinGW-5.1.3.exe", and installing to C:\MinGW
> > - 2: downloading: "mingw-w64-bin-x86_64-mingw_20080213.tar.bz2" and
> > extracting the content to C:\MingGW
> >
> > On both occasions I I installed MSYS by running "MSYS-1.0.10.exe"
> > and installing to C:\msys\1.0, but neither worked.

For MSYS-1.0.10 on Win64, you need an updated msys.bat; get it from the 
CVS at: 
http://mingw.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/mingw/msys/dvlpr/bin/msys.bat

> At least for Vista64 you'll need MSYS 1.0.11 (which is not offered as
> installer (yet?). Not sure if the same applies to XP64. But it might
> be worth a try :D

This would give you the newer msys.bat, but the update is worthwhile for 
other reasons besides.

Regards,
Keith.

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