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Msys - Minimal System

MSYS is a minimal POSIX system that is used alongside MinGW to allow configuration and building of packages in a GNU-familiar way on Windows. It offers a user land environment for MinGW development and converts POSIX paths before executing native Windows programs. MSYS has its own mailing list for questions and issues, and the developer plans new releases every six weeks with announcements on the website and mailing list.

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Msys - Minimal System

MSYS is a minimal POSIX system that is used alongside MinGW to allow configuration and building of packages in a GNU-familiar way on Windows. It offers a user land environment for MinGW development and converts POSIX paths before executing native Windows programs. MSYS has its own mailing list for questions and issues, and the developer plans new releases every six weeks with announcements on the website and mailing list.

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MSYS - Minimal SYStem

Version 1.0.10
http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml

Welcome to the world of MSYS and MinGW. Minimal SYStem is a minimal


POSIX system used in the Win32 OS to accomplish configuration and making
of packages.
MSYS is a fork of Cygwin and is more friendly to the Win32 user. It offers
only a user land environment for MinGW development. It converts posix
paths before executing a "native" win32 program. This allows the users of
the MinGW version of GCC to port and build packages in a GNU familiar way
and removes the UNIX complexities that Cygwin adds.
MSYS has it's own mailing list, mailto:[email protected], so if you have
questions or experience problems ask on that list please. I have many plans
for MSYS and MinGW and plan for a new release of not more than a six
weeks span. Announcements of the new release will be done in both the news
posts on the http://www.mingw.org web site and the mingw-msys mail list.
More documentation can be found in the /doc/msys directory. Please be
sure to read the documents in that directory. The /bin and /usr/bin
directories are reserved for MSYS use. Do not install binaries that are not
dependant on the msys-1.0.dll into those directories. If you do you will
surely run into problems.
Enjoy,
Earnie
[email protected]

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