[Coco] Building NITROS9

[Aaron Wolfe]

Ah, looks like on a totally clean system things go differently.  Was afraid
of that.

When the "MinGW Installation Manager" window opens, check the status of
these two items:

mingw32-base
msys-base

If they are not shown as installed, click and mark them for installation.
Then choose Apply Changes from the Installation menu, wait for it to
finish, and exit the installer.

This will install what you need as far as I can tell.

If you do not have an msys shell icon at this point, go to
c:/mingw/msys/1.0 and you will find msys.bat, which is what the icon it
used to create links to.  You can use that to start the msys shell and
should be ready to carry on with the instructions.  You can even make
yourself a pretty icon with the .ico files found in the same place.

No idea why this icon isnt made anymore (at least in some situations, I
havent done much testing).  I suspect things are installing fine
regardless, in all test cases so far the mingw and msys environments are
being set up correctly, just no handy icon for the shell.

Ill update the docs after more testing.  As always, it is challenging to
make guides/docs that apply to a changing target, even for something as
simple as installing the thing.
 On Oct 28, 2013 8:27 AM, "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

>
> 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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