Top "Msys" questions

MSYS is a collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and grep for Microsoft Windows, supporting UNIX shell scripting, and building of applications and programs which depend on the availability of traditional UNIX tools.

Recursively search for files of a given name, and find instances of a particular phrase AND display the path to that file

I have a bunch of folders and subfolders. Each one contains, amongst other things, a text file called index.yml …

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Is make no longer included with MinGW and/or MSYS?

I installed MinGW and MSYS on my Windows 7 computer. I added C:\Program Files (x86)\MinGW\bin to my path. …

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Setting up SDL in MinGW

Currently, I'm trying to figure out how to set up SDL with MinGW. I've seen a couple of sites that …

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What is cygwin and what does it do

after searching about it i found some info (yet confusing for me) Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface …

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msys path conversion (or cygpath for msys?)

I need to pass /DEF:c:\filepath\myLib.def" command line option from a bash script to MS compiler/linker. …

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`msbuild` command not found, but `msbuild.exe` works fine

I run MSys/Bash as distributed in Git for Windows. I added the folder C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319 …

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Getting mingw-get to install correctly - mingw/msys path missing plus more!

I'm running windows XP. I have been following this tutorial and so downloading mingw-get-inst here. I've done this a couple …

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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 …

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How do you configure Msys's default size, color, and font?

I've been exploring use of MSys lately as an alternative, 'nix-like shell for my windows development. However, the default colors …

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Difference between GNUWin32 and cygwin

I can't seem to get a handle on the difference between the two. It seems that one (GNUWin32) is an …

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