Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Just starting out...

2008-03-25 Thread NightStrike
On 3/25/08, whatis neveritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And feel free to create a FAQ and update it in the Wiki... > > > > What about a README in the project root? > > Or maybe a base README template which gets used to generate a README > appropriate for the specific project it gets run f

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Just starting out...

2008-03-25 Thread NightStrike
On 3/25/08, whatis neveritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eeps sorry that wasn't clear, > > So: > > |-- mingw -> x86_64-pc-mingw32 > > mingw is a symlink towards x86_64-pc-mingw32 Only on file systems that support symlinks. I'll repackage the windows-hosted packages without any ambiguity in links

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Just starting out...

2008-03-25 Thread NightStrike
On 3/25/08, whatis neveritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > 5) Do I need to make a shortcut (or similar?) to point that gcc.exe to > > > "c:\mw64\bin\x86_64-pc-mingw32-gcc-4.4.0.exe"? > > > > Nope. > > > > Then how is the compiler meant to be invoked? By typing "gcc" or > "x86_64-pc-mingw32

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Just starting out...

2008-03-25 Thread NightStrike
On 3/25/08, whatis neveritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are the files in: > > root-x86_64-pc-linux/mingw/bin/ > > hard links toward files in: > > root-x86_64-pc-linux/ > > ? Hard links don't exist on windows, so they are copies of each other. root/bin holds default programs (gcc, ld, etc). roo

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Just starting out...

2008-03-21 Thread NightStrike
On 3/21/08, David Cleaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > NightStrike wrote: > > No, it's just not setup right. The msys.bat file configures a system > > properly based on if you're 64-bit windows or 32-bit windows. So > > start your shell with that instead of starting sh.exe directly. You > >

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Just starting out...

2008-03-20 Thread David Cleaver
NightStrike wrote: > No, it's just not setup right. The msys.bat file configures a system > properly based on if you're 64-bit windows or 32-bit windows. So > start your shell with that instead of starting sh.exe directly. You > can use the --norxvt option to msys.bat to use a normal windows >

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Just starting out...

2008-03-20 Thread NightStrike
On 3/20/08, David Cleaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > NightStrike wrote: > > On 3/20/08, David Cleaver wrote: > >> 1) Do I need to add "c:\mw64\bin" to my path? > > > > Yup. I'd put it first, too: PATH=C:\mw64\bin;%PATH% > > Awesome! After using tar under cygwin (I originally used a program c

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Just starting out...

2008-03-20 Thread David Cleaver
NightStrike wrote: > On 3/20/08, David Cleaver wrote: >> 1) Do I need to add "c:\mw64\bin" to my path? > > Yup. I'd put it first, too: PATH=C:\mw64\bin;%PATH% Awesome! After using tar under cygwin (I originally used a program called 7-zip) to re-extract all the files to c:\mw64, all the file

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Just starting out...

2008-03-20 Thread NightStrike
On 3/20/08, David Cleaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, Hi! > I would like to start using mingw-w64, but am unsure of what to do. Emailing here is a good start :) > I've just downloaded the latest mingw-w64-bin-x86_64-mingw_20080320.tar.bz2 > and extracted > it to its own folder

[Mingw-w64-public] Just starting out...

2008-03-20 Thread David Cleaver
Hello everyone, I would like to start using mingw-w64, but am unsure of what to do. I've just downloaded the latest mingw-w64-bin-x86_64-mingw_20080320.tar.bz2 and extracted it to its own folder "c:\mw64". I'm running Windows XP 64-bit edition and would like to build 64-bit windows binaries.