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%

#454

overflow with ls

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. Modify c:\osgeo4w\apps\msys\msys.bat, see attachment:msys.bat.diff

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

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

5. At line 16, change:

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

To:

@osgeo4w@	/osgeo4w

6. 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)

7. Download the latest make program compliant with the OSGeo4W framework from ​here

(future updates may be found ​here)

8. 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)

9. 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-bin from ​here
• libiconv-lib from ​here (dev package only)
• libintl-bin from ​here
• libintl-lib from ​here (dev package only)
• readline from ​here
• regex from ​here

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)

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