I can't find my MinGW shell after installing with GUI installer

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Johanne Irish picture Johanne Irish · Jan 21, 2013 · Viewed 48.3k times · Source

I used Mingw_get_inst and installed the MinGW compiler suite following the instructions on the howto page. I used the GUI installer. I then changed the path to include C:\MingW; . When I go to Start menu -> all programs -> MingW the only file that exists inside of there is a uninstaller. The howto page says a shell should be there... can someone help me get this working?

Howto page on Mingw.org: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started

Answer

Muhammad Soliman picture Muhammad Soliman · Mar 8, 2014

simply you could run it from the following batch file:

e.g. C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat (if you installed your mingw in c drive)

for more info. about mysys, check this

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