Re: compiling source code!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was just telling one of the ways to avoid the conflicts. It
generally happens that a newbie adds the cygwin paths to the env
variables and if he forgets to remove those, then, you know better,
which tools he'd be using!!! In such cases, a less experienced person
would just give up.

I remember that if I hadn't had that small peice of advice from
AumAum, I was on the verge of giving up on trying the mingw
installation aftar failing 3 times!!!

<quote>
It's crucial to crack the tarballs into /mingw (C:\msys\n.n\mingw),
because if you crack any of them into / (C:\msys\n.n), you'll cause
some subtle conflicts between MSYS and the MinGW tools which will
cause your compilations to fail.
</quote>
from http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/RealDumbQuickstart

So my suggestion was just to at least rename the folder
temporarily till sibel gets everything started.

Moreover, I dont think one would need cygwin after having mingw. I
might be wrong!

Yes, I agree your approach is more non-intrusive.

Sibel, just add the method of 'removing cygwin's paths from
environment variables (if they exist)' to the top of the
pre-requisites-list before you try installing mingw.

Sorry for uiintentionally misleading someone, if I did!

Regards,
Gurjeet

On 5/25/06, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> Gurjeet Singh said:
> > Also, I would recommend uninstalling cygwin before you install
> > mingw,

> > If you don't wish to uninstall cygwin, at least rename the folder
> > to someting else (cygwin.before.mingw) so that you don't accidentally
> > use cygwin's binaries.
>
>
> This is complete nonsense. I have Cygwin and Mingw/Msys living quite happily
> side by side on the same box. Each is largely ignorant of the other.
>
> Of course, if you add Cygwin to the system path you can cause problems, so
> don't do that. But there is no need at all that I know of to uninstall or
> rename anything.
>
> If you have problems with your setup please ask for help, instead of handing
> out wrong advice.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew