msys

• MSYS - Minimal SYStem - provides Windows ports of a lightweight Unix-like shell environment
• 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

TODO

• split package into msys (GNU utilities), mingw and msys-tools (extra tools like zip and others)
• update to 1.0.18

Changes

• 1.0.11-11: added 'zip' package
• 1.0.11-12: fix dependencies for 'zip' package

Open Tickets

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Closed Tickets

#78

msys.bat overrides %HOME%

#454

overflow with ls

Packaging notes

Install MinGW

1. Download ​latest installer.

2. Choose only MSYS Base System.

3. Install MinGW (including MSYS) into C:\MinGW.

4. Move c:\MinGW\msys\1.0 to c:\osgeo4w\apps\msys.

3. Modify c:\osgeo4w\apps\msys\msys.bat

--- msys.bat	2009-07-11 18:34:35 +0000
+++ apps/msys/msys.bat	2012-02-09 18:03:45 +0000
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 rem A value similar to C:\msys\1.0\bin is what the "Start in:" field needs
 rem to represent.
 
+call "%~dp0\..\..\bin\o4w_env.bat"
+
 rem ember value of GOTO: is used to know recursion has happened.
 if "%1" == "GOTO:" goto %2
 
@@ -53,9 +55,9 @@
 if "x%1" == "x--rxvt" set MSYSCON=rxvt.exe
 if NOT "x%MSYSCON%" == "xunknown" shift
 
-if "x%MSYSCON%" == "xunknown" set MSYSCON=sh.exe
+if "x%MSYSCON%" == "xunknown" set MSYSCON=rxvt.exe
 
-if "x%MSYSTEM%" == "x" set MSYSTEM=MINGW32
+if "x%MSYSTEM%" == "x" set MSYSTEM=MSYS
 if "%1" == "MINGW32" set MSYSTEM=MINGW32
 if "%1" == "MSYS" set MSYSTEM=MSYS
 
@@ -80,8 +82,8 @@
 if NOT EXIST %WD%rxvt.exe goto startsh
 
 rem Setup the default colors for rxvt.
-if "x%MSYSBGCOLOR%" == "x" set MSYSBGCOLOR=White
-if "x%MSYSFGCOLOR%" == "x" set MSYSFGCOLOR=Black
+if "x%MSYSBGCOLOR%" == "x" set MSYSBGCOLOR=Black
+if "x%MSYSFGCOLOR%" == "x" set MSYSFGCOLOR=White
 if "x%MINGW32BGCOLOR%" == "x" set MINGW32BGCOLOR=LightYellow
 if "x%MINGW32FGCOLOR%" == "x" set MINGW32FGCOLOR=Navy
 if "%MSYSTEM%" == "MSYS" set BGCOLOR=%MSYSBGCOLOR%
@@ -89,7 +91,7 @@
 if "%MSYSTEM%" == "MINGW32" set BGCOLOR=%MINGW32BGCOLOR%
 if "%MSYSTEM%" == "MINGW32" set FGCOLOR=%MINGW32FGCOLOR%
 
-start %WD%rxvt -backspacekey  -sl 2500 -fg %FGCOLOR% -bg %BGCOLOR% -sr -fn Courier-12 -tn msys -geometry 80x25 -e /bin/sh --login -i
+start %WD%rxvt -backspacekey  -sl 2500 -fg %FGCOLOR% -bg %BGCOLOR% -sr -fn Courier-16 -tn msys -geometry 80x25 -e /bin/sh --login -i
 exit
 
 :startsh

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

--- apps/msys/etc/fstab.sample  2009-07-11 18:34:34 +0000
+++ apps/msys/etc/fstab 2012-02-09 16:11:26 +0000
@@ -13,5 +13,4 @@
-C:\MinGW\   /mingw
+@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)

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-bin from ​here (dev package only)
• 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)

Extra packages

• zip from ​here (zip-bin and zip-dep)

Etc scripts

1. Create c:\osgeo4w\etc\ini and save msys.bat into this directory

PATH %PATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\msys\bin
if not defined HOME set HOME=%USERPROFILE%

2. Create c:\osgeo4w\etc\postinstall and save msys.bat into this directory

mkdir "%OSGEO4W_STARTMENU%"
xxmklink "%OSGEO4W_STARTMENU%\MSYS.lnk"       "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\msys\msys.bat" " " \ "Minimal SYStem" 7 "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\msys\msys.ico"

xxmklink "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\MSYS.lnk" "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\msys\msys.bat" " " \ "Minimal SYStem" 7 "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\msys\msys.ico"

textreplace -std -t apps/msys/etc/fstab