I am trying to build linphone for windows by following the instructions in Readme.mingw using MinGw/Msys. There is no issues till the download of belle-sip package. When I run ./autogen.sh I am g...

I'm trying to build a simple SDL2 game with CMake and MSYS Makefiles. I want to statically link SDL2 so I can distribute a single executable without having to include the SDL2.dll. Here's my CMak...

In trying to switch from Cygwin to MSYS, I'd really like to have MSYS beep / system bell completely disabled. Sources[1] suggest modifying ~/.inputrc to include set bell-style none but this only...

im trying to run a c program on my windows 7 computer using eclipse and im running into a little snag. I currently have Eclipse downloaded on my computer with the CDT plugin and i have also downloa...

I'm attempting to write (in C#) a piece of software that communicates with another piece of software, built with MSYS, over (MSYS emulated) Unix domain sockets. I've learned that the "socket s...

I was just trying to build netcat in MSYS using MinGW and realized that MinGW never really ported all of the BSD socket stuff to Windows (eg sys/socket.h). I know you can use Windows Sockets in Min...

I have installed msysgit via the net installer. I ended up with almost 2 giga of material, where I have among the other things git sources and MinGW. I have three questions I already had MinGW f...

I'm trying to get MinGW and MSYS working so I can build iconv and libxml2 in Windows, but I'm finding ./configure and make are giving lots of BSD/Unix related errors that aren't specific enough to ...

after searching about it i found some info (yet confusing for me) Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. i found the above line in wikipedia...

I can’t use play! framework from a MSYS shell (as used in Git on Windows). Error during sbt execution: Could not find configuration file 'c:/Dev/Prg/Play/framework/sbt/play.boot.properties'. Searc...

I am trying to use process substitution to avoid using temporary files. I tried the following: diff <(echo "a") <(echo "b") on mingw32/msys (from http://www.mingw.org/ as of Dec 2013), and...

I need to look something up in the debug version of std::vector<T>, and I can't remember where the headers actually are. This is under MSYS on Windows, where this is tricky, because you have ...

I found this post Compiling fish shell under Cygwin? which talks about compiling fish against Cygwin. What would be the instructions to compile for MSYS? (and especially MSYSGIT)? This is what I ...

I'm trying to pass a unix style path to the Android adb command using a git bash (msysgit) but the shell is interpreting my path incorrectly. This is what I've tried so far: $ adb push myfile /mnt...

How do I navigate through my Windows folder structure within the MSYS shell? When I start the shell, all I see is a '~'. I type 'ls' and the folder is empty. I just want to know how to get to my c ...

I was trying to compile a simple opengl program on msys using g++. To my surprise the linker was complaining on undefined references: $ g++ -mwindows -lopengl32 glut_md2.cpp C:\Users\...\cceQtYAy....

The problem is illustrated by this simple script: import time, os, sys sys.stdout = os.fdopen( sys.stdout.fileno(), 'w', 1 ) # line-buffer stdout print 'before sleep' time.sleep( 10 ) print 'after...

When I use MSYS to compile something, the ./configure step can take longer than the make. However, the same process in Linux has a fast configure and slow make. Is this just some setting in MSYS th...

I am using mingw gcc and msys to build a number of GNU utilities. In the past, I have had a lot of problems caused by different executables requiring different versions of libiconv, so to avoid the...

I'm using msysgit on windows 7 and I found bash scripting very useful. I wrote some .sh scripts, but I'd like git bash to autocomplete their names. For now I can see, that after initial prompt git ...

I have an old library (in C++) that I'm only able to build on MinGW+MSYS32 on Windows. From that I can produce a .a static library file generated from GNU libtool. My primary development is done in...

Having been unsuccessful in finding recent, standalone binaries of various Unix tools like xargs and whatnot (this version, while great, requires external DLLs), I've taken up the challenge of comp...

I want to build OpenSSL in Windows with MinGW, How can I do that? Please help me. Thanks.

I'd like to use AnsiColorLogger to get color ouput from Ant. I'm using Git Bash on Windows. I tried: $ ant -logger org.apache.tools.ant.listener.AnsiColorLogger but my output looks like: Build...

I would like to download a script from a vanilla MSYS environment. On Linux, I would do wget <url> On Mac OS X, I would do curl -O <url> Unfortunately, neither of these alternati...