On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Isaac Marino Bavaresco wrote: > Don't anybody know msys? It is a unix-compatible environment for > windows. It has a shell interpreter and includes most command-line > tools, including make, etc. > > I use it along with MinGW to build for windows open-source software > available on the net (most of them originally for linux/unix but > portable to other platforms). > > It works almost exactly as any linux/unix console. > MinGW/MSys used to be easy to install. It is no longer so. Now it is getting bigger and bigger and more and more difficult to install. Just look at the files you need to download in order to get a functional environment (with libtool/automake/autoconf/etc). Actually you need to read the release notes of them and then manually install all the dependencies. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/ The long saga I had with MinGW/MSYS and libusb 1.0 Win32. http://old.nabble.com/Problem-compiling-with-MingW-td27762662.html In then end, it was due to a bug in libtool under MinGW (problem with the system locale). http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2010-03/msg00012.html Cygwin is much easier to install than MinGW/MSYS now. I used to like MinGW/MSYS more than Cygwin, not any more. -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist