[Coco] Building NITROS9

[Bill Pierce]

Aaron, I trid the new installer a couple of weeks ago and it didn't work for me either. Nothing seems to get installed but the installer no matter what I do. I had to revert back to the old installer.
The one I'm using is mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe

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-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Oct 28, 2013 7:28 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Building NITROS9


Looks like the mingw project has switched to a different installer.

The instructions would now be:

Visit https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-inst/

Find "Looking for the latest version? Download mingw-get-setup.exe"
and click it, download and execute this file.

Install with defaults.

When the MingW installation manager opens, close it without doing anything.

This should take care of everything you need, at least it does on my
system.  I will update the wiki page after confirming on additional
machines.


Is it possible you actually removed the msys base package rather than
installing it?  In the new installer, it is installed by default, so
taking some action on this item may have done the opposite of what is
desired.




On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Walter Zambotti <zambotti at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I'm having trouble creating the Nitros9 build environment on my XP system.
>
> >From the instructions at
>
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/nitros9/index.php?
> title=Building_NitrOS9_in_Windows_using_MinGW
>
> I have downloaded :
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/latest/download?source=files
>
> Looking for the latest version? Download mingw-get-setup.exe (86.5 kB)
>
> Which is named slightly differently to the instructions :
>
> "Looking for the latest version? Download mingw-get-inst-XXXXXXX.exe" and
> click it,
>
> But I'll assume I have copied the correct file.
>
> The next instructions are to
>
> Install with defaults other than these two exceptions:
> On the Repository Catalogues page, choose "Download latest repository
> catalogue"
> On the Select Components page, add check by "MSYS Basic System"
>
> I'm having trouble identifying the "Download latest repository catalogue"
> option. I cannot see any obviously button or menu option, except maybe
>
> Installation->Update Catalogue
>
> So I select that and select (mark) the MSYS Base System package.
>
> And then select Installation->Apply Changes.
>
> It downloads items for several minutes and then sits there.
>
> I can see a lot of files have been placed into c:\MinGW but I cant identify
> any applications and I cant find the MinGW shell as described in the
> instructions.
>
> Open MinGW Shell (a new icon that has been added to your start menu during
> the MinGW install)
>
> I haven't used MingW before so I'm clueless at this stage.
>
> Any help appreciated
>
>
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