Setting up MSYS: ./configure is not recognized by Windows 7 as a command
I'm following a tutorial for installing Synthesis Toolkit on Windows 7
I figured that I already installed MinGW and MSYS, and I should be able to skip the steps where he talks about how to install and setup the environment, but I typed all the commands to install:
gcc g++ mingw32-make gdb msys-base again just to make sure everything is installed. I got errors saying all the requested packages have been installed. Then I made sure the path environment was set up according to the article.
But when I tried to type in ./configure --enable-debug, Windows kept saying that . is not recognized as a command.
I did some googling and found out that MSYS is the one controlling this type command. So I reinstall both MinGW and MSYS, then set up the Path environment, restart my computer, and follow the tutorial again, but still no luck.
There must be something wrong with MSYS. I don't think I set it up correctly because I only add C:\MinGW\bin to the path environment. I didn't do anything to MSYS, but I was using "mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe" to get MinGW and MSYS, I clicked on all the options that I can add to MinGW, I thought MSYS should be set up already after that.
I can't use .\configure at all. And I saw other tutorials saying I need to mount MinGW to MSYS by using mount c:/mingw /mingw. But mount is not recognized by Windows 7 either. I'm thinking MSYS is the problem. There is one tutorial saying to "Set the environment variable HOME to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home". So I look into the home folder, and it's empty. So I added C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin to the path environment. It didn't work out.
Answer
By checking http://wiki.openttd.org/Compiling_on_Windows_using_MinGW,
I realized that you should first start your msys.bat at ${MinGW_PATH}\msys\1.0\msys.bat( mine is C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat ).
There you can then do whatever you likes to do.
./configure
make
make install
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