Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MinGW-w64 MSYS version questions.

2012-05-15 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Hi Teemu, > I personally use Ralph Engels' environment which has pretty much > everything I need, except Qt. It is a combination of MSYS and MinGW-w64. > I think you can safely replace the GCC Ralph uses with Ruben's GCC. > http://sourceforge.net/projects/cbadvanced/ i wasn't aware of this thig.

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MinGW-w64 MSYS version questions.

2012-05-15 Thread Teemu Nätkinniemi
On 15.5.2012 16:02, MARTIN Pierre wrote: > i'm a bit confused, and would like to hear from you all: what do > you usually do, as a rule of thumb, when requiring another > package? Is there an un-official (Off-list if needed) where i can get > something similar to MinGW-Get, but for the MinGW-w64 v

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MinGW-w64 MSYS version questions.

2012-05-15 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Dear Earnie, > What file type are you trying to archive/unarchive? MSYS provides > msys-zip and msys-unzip for .zip files. Also there is a msys-xz which > will pack/unpack .lzma and .xz. > So do you really need 7zip and if so why? i really need 7z. The reason is that i'm using Qt IFW that uses t

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MinGW-w64 MSYS version questions.

2012-05-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:02 AM, MARTIN Pierre wrote: > i have a quick question about this MSYS environment. i primarily > use it because all my scripts are initially made on an unix system, > and are also being ran on my Debian machine. i didn't want to go > through the hassle of making windows b

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MinGW-w64 MSYS version questions.

2012-05-15 Thread MARTIN Pierre
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Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MinGW-w64 MSYS version questions.

2012-05-15 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Hi Jony, > As part of another project, I aggregate the mingw.org MSYS packages with > mingw-w64 builds...we call it the oh so clever...wait for it...DevKit. > It's got other goodies and things that make Ruby on Windows users happy, but > it's also a standalone development toolchain. > Currently

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MinGW-w64 MSYS version questions.

2012-05-15 Thread Jon
> > Then what is the point of the MinGW-w64 version of the MSYS > > package? Only changes to /etc or something more complex? > > This package originated from before mingw-get. I like the unzip+use > > philosophy for development tools, as I move stuff around a lot. So I > > manually downloaded all

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MinGW-w64 MSYS version questions.

2012-05-15 Thread MARTIN Pierre
> Don't know, I use the latest MSYS stuff from their downloads site. Ok! > So let's say i just put the original mingw-get binary in the > MinGW-w64 version, it would then work with other programs > installed via mingw-get? > It should work, but again: if you like mingw-get, just use that. This i

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MinGW-w64 MSYS version questions.

2012-05-15 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2012/5/15 MARTIN Pierre > > Do not try to build MSYS programs yourself. It's very nontrivial (if not > impossible except for those who know exactly how it works) and a waste of > time. > Ah! That was a bad idea from me to try on the first place then. > > > If MSYS does not provide something you n

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MinGW-w64 MSYS version questions.

2012-05-15 Thread MARTIN Pierre
> Do not try to build MSYS programs yourself. It's very nontrivial (if not > impossible except for those who know exactly how it works) and a waste of > time. Ah! That was a bad idea from me to try on the first place then. > If MSYS does not provide something you need, either go for Cygwin or

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MinGW-w64 MSYS version questions.

2012-05-15 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2012/5/15 MARTIN Pierre > Dear list readers, > > As you all might know, i'm using Ruben's version of the toolchain. It's > working very well for my needs, and on the side i'm also using > MinGW-w64's version of MSYS (The tarball found on the sourceforge > page). > > i have a quick question about

[Mingw-w64-public] MinGW-w64 MSYS version questions.

2012-05-15 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Dear list readers, As you all might know, i'm using Ruben's version of the toolchain. It's working very well for my needs, and on the side i'm also using MinGW-w64's version of MSYS (The tarball found on the sourceforge page). i have a quick question about this MSYS environment. i primarily use i