msys

• MSYS - Minimal SYStem - collection of GNU utilities, see  list of unix utilities
• Current Version: 1.0.11
• msys:  http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/release/msys/msys
• msys-dev:  http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/release/msys/msys-dev
• Initial packaged for GRASS by jef
• Maintainer: Martin Landa

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#78

msys.bat overrides %HOME%

Packaging notes

Install the environment for compilation (MingW)

1. Download  msysCORE-1.0.11-bin.tar.gz. Extract tarball into C:\osgeo4w\apps\msys.

2. Copy c:\osgeo4w\apps\msys\etc\fstab.sample to c:\osgeo4w\apps\msys\etc\fstab (without .sample)

3. Open c:\osgeo4w\apps\msys\etc\fstab

4. At line 16, change:

c:/mingw		/mingw
c:/ActiveState/perl	/perl

To:

c:/osgeo4w/	/osgeo4w

5. Download the MinGW packages: ( updates may be found here)

• bin-utils from  here
• gcc-core from  here (dev package only)
• gcc-g++ from  here (dev package only)
• mingw32-make from  here (dev package only)
• mingw-runtime from  here (dev package only)
• mingw-utils from  here (dev package only)
• w32api from  here (dev package only)

6. Download the latest make program compliant with the OSGeo4W framework from  here (future updates may be found  here) - (dev package only)

7. Unpack to c:\osgeo4w\apps\msys (the content of the sub-folders in the zip-files - bin, share have to be copied into the related sub-folders of c:\osgeo4w\apps\msys)

8. Close and re-open msys to reload the settings.

Pre-built Binaries

Download: (updates may be found  here)

• bc from  here
• bison from  here (dev package only)
• bison-deps from  here (dev package only)
• flex from  here (dev package only)
• gettext-bin from  here (dev package only)
• gettext-lib from  here (dev package only)
• libiconv-lib from  here (dev package only)
• libintl-bin from  here (dev package only)
• libintl-lib from  here (dev package only)
• readline from  here
• regex from  here (dev package only)

Unpack to c:\osgeo4w\apps\msys (the content of the sub-folders in the zip-files - bin, share have to be copied into the related sub-folders of c:\osgeo4w\apps\msys)

Add etc scripts

1. Create c:\osgeo4w\etc\ini and copy attachment:msys.bat into this directory
2. Create c:\osgeo4w\etc\postinstall and copy attachment:msys.2.bat into this directory