msys

• MSYS - collection of GNU utilities, see  list of unix utilities
• Current Version: 1.0.11
•  http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/release/msys
• 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.

• Note: to change background/foreground color or font size edit C:\osgeo4w\apps\msys\msys.bat

2. Type:

mkdir /c/osgeo4w/apps/msys/osgeo4w

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

cd /c/OSGeo4W/apps/msys/etc/
cp fstab.sample fstab

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

5. At line 16, change:

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

To:

c:/osgeo4w/	/osgeo4w

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

• Temp bugfix (see here), msysCORE-1.0.11-bin from  here
• bin-utils from  here
• gcc-core from  here
• gcc-g++ from  here
• mingw32-make from  here
• mingw-runtime from  here
• mingw-utils from  here
• w32api from  here

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)

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