Using msysGit from MinGW and vice versa

git compilation mingw msysgit msys
tbolender picture tbolender · May 4, 2011 · Viewed 14k times · Source

I am using git as my revision control system. To do so, I installed msysGit to checkout my repositories on MSW. Now I want to compile my programs with MinGW and found this "problem" for me: When I install MinGW and MSYS via mingw-get I can compile my program, no problem. But I can not access git. When I use the Git Bash, I can work with git, but can not compile.

Is there any possibility to:

  • install MinGW "into" Git Bash (because it already contains msys, didn't it?) OR
  • to set "links" between both installations to make it work.

I would prefere the way I can keep both packages up to date more easily.

Thanks in advance :)

Answer

Guilherme picture Guilherme · Jul 6, 2012

You can add a symbolic link to git in MinGW, if you chose the second option.

So if your msysgit installation is in C:\Program Files (x86)\Git Open the MinGW shell and type:

cd /usr/bin
ln -s /c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Git/bin/git git

This will create a symbolic link called git in MinGW's /usr/bin pointing to the msysgit installation. Then you can use the git command anywhere from the MinGW shell.

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