msys

• MSYS - Minimal SYStem - provides Windows ports of a lightweight Unix-like shell environment
• Current Version: 1.0.18
• msys: ​http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/release/msys
• Initial packaged for GRASS by jef
• Maintainer: Martin Landa

Major changes

• 1.0.11-11: added 'zip' package
• 1.0.11-12: fix dependencies for 'zip' package
• 1.0.18-1: new installation via MinGW installer
• 1.0.18-4: added 'unzip' package

Open Tickets

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Closed Tickets

#78

msys.bat overrides %HOME%

#454

overflow with ls

Packaging notes (msys and mingw package)

Install MinGW

1. Download ​latest installer.

2. Choose MSYS Base System | C & C++ Compiler, MSYS Base System and MinGW Developer Toolkit (mingw package).

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

4. Modify C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\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

5. Modify C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\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

6. Move C:\MinGW\msys\1.0 to C:\MinGW\apps\msys

7. Remove C:\MinGW\unins000.* files

8. Remove C:\MinGW\apps\msys\bin\pwd.exe (mingw package only)

Download extra packages

1. Download extra pre-built binaries

(updates may be found ​here)

• bc from ​here
• libintl-bin from ​here (also for mingw package)
• libiconv-bin from ​here (also for mingw package)
• readline-bin from ​here (also for mingw package)
• regex-bin from ​here (also for mingw package)
• zip from ​here (zip-bin and zip-dep)
• unzip from ​here (unzip-bin)

2. Unpack into c:\MinGW\apps\msys

Include DLL libraries

1. List of DLL libraries from mingw package to be copied

• libintl-8.dll, libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll

Etc scripts

1. Create C:\MinGW\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:\MinGW\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