msys

• MSYS - collection of GNU 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%

#454

overflow with ls

Packaging notes

Install the environment for compilation (MingW)

1. Run msys (there should be an icon on the desktop)
   • Note for Vista 64bit: in case that MSYS starts to open multiple windows, close them all. Check first ​this discussion. A solutions seems to be to download ​msysCORE-1.0.11-bin.tar.gz (or newer?). Open the tarball, and copy the bin directory over C:\osgeo4w\apps\msys\bin. See also ​https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=720513
   • 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

1. 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)

2. Copy extra DLLs to c:\osgeo4w\bin

cd /osgeo4w/apps/msys/bin
cp libintl3.dll libiconv2.dll regex2.dll /osgeo4w/bin