Getting Started | Min. GWMin. GW Installation Notes. Min. GW may have problems with paths containing spaces, and if not, usually other programs used with Min. GW will experience problems with such paths.
Thus, we strongly recommend that you do not install Min. GW in any location with spaces in the path name reference.
You should avoid installing into any directory or subdirectory having names like "Program Files" or "My Documents", etc. No version numbering convention exists for Min. GW as a whole. Each package has its own version number, and the installer version number does not correlate, in any way, with the version number of any individual package which it installs. The preferred installation target directory is C: \Min. GWThe preferred installation method is using the automated installer tool, as described below. While a manual installation is possible, we do not recommend it, unless you have a very old version of MS- Windows which is unable to run the graphical tool. Instructions for manual installation are provided below, if you really want (or need) to resort to it.
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After installation you will need to perform some additional tasks yourself to ensure your Min. GW applications will run. Most importantly, you will need to make changes to your PATH environment variable. Be careful: there are two PATH variables which can be changed, and changing the wrong one can have significant consequences. Instructions for changing the correct PATH variable are provided below. You will also need to ensure you specify the correct installation target directory to the Min.
GW environment. While it is possible to install Min. GW to a location other than C: \Min. GW (e. g. on a different drive), you must ensure that the Min.
MINGW-packages - Package scripts for MinGW-w64 targets to build under MSYS2. Installing MinGW & MSYS on Windows. From Genome Analysis Wiki. Jump to: navigation, search. Select Current to install the current MinGW package and click Next >.
GW environment knows where it is located. Instructions for doing this are also provided below.
Graphical User Interface Installer. An automated GUI installer assistant called mingw- get- setup. This will guide you through the setup of the mingw- get installer proper; you will then use this to perform further package installations, and to manage your installation.
To perform your first time Min. GW installation, you should proceed as follows: Click on this mingw- get- setup. Note: you shouldalwaysdownload the latest available version of this; neveruse a possibly out- of- date copy, which may have been sitting on your local disk drive, or local network, for any appreciable period ). Locate the file you have downloaded, and double click on it to start the installer. Note: depending on your version of Windows, and on your local security policies, you may need to grant permission for this application to run ). Peruse the "blurb" of the opening dialogue, then click the Install button, to proceed with the installation. Review the installation options, as presented in the following dialogue.
If you wish to change the installation directory, from the C: \Min. GW offered by default, do please observe the warnings above, and reiterated within the dialogue, relating to path names with embedded spaces. Note that the CLI variant of mingw- get is always installed; the GUI variant is also installed by default, (and is highly recommended), but you may exclude it if you wish. It is recommended that you DO NOT select an "All Users" installation. When you have set the installation options to suit your preferences, click the Continue button to initiate the download and installation of mingw- get itself. At this juncture, mingw- get- setup.
MinGW/FFmpeg installation guide. In order to compile FFmpeg on Windows, you need to install the MinGW environment and a few tools which are strictly required. MinGW Package Download and Installation Tool ===== $Id: readme.txt,v e70f37efc80b 2013/10/04 11:03:38 keithmarshall. Welcome to the MinGW project file distribution directories. This is the top level directory containing Installer, MinGW, MSYS and Other directories.
If you really wanted to manage an existing installation, you should click Run Now. Alternatively, if you are trying to upgrade an existing installation of mingw- get itself, the Reinstall button is a safe choice to achieve this, or you may choose Change Directory if you prefer to create an alternative "side- by- side" installation. When you have completed the foregoing procedure, to the point where mingw- get is installed, mingw- get- setup. You may click the Quit button, to terminate mingw- get- setup. If you choose this option, you may then run mingw- get later, at your own convenience, to add packages or otherwise manage your Min. GW installation. Alternatively, you may click the Continue button, to proceed immediately to package selection and installation.
If you choose this option, you will be presented with the mingw- get GUI display, (via an integrated copy within mingw- get- setup. Min. GW installation. When running the mingw- get GUI, (whether integrated within mingw- get- setup.
You may observe that the window caption appears as "Min. GW Installation Manager". However, the Help/About dialogue confirms that it is a component of the mingw- get application suite; "Min.
GW Installation Manager" may be considered synonymous with "mingw- get GUI". You may select from the (tree view) list of package categories, in the left hand pane of the application window, to see a refined list of packages in the upper right hand (list view) pane; the "Basic Setup" category represents (approximately) the choice of packages originally offered by the old, no longer supported mingw- get- inst. You may select any one package in the upper right (list view) pane, to see related information on the tabs of the lower right hand pane. At the time of writing, the list of packages associated with the "Basic Setup" category has been polluted by extraneous entries; ( cf.
Min. GW- Bug #2. 02. Strictly, only those packages designated as belonging to the bin component class should appear in this list. Unlike the case with mingw- get- inst. If you do wish to install mingw- get- inst. GNU C Compiler, the GNU Debugger (GDB), and the GNU make tool), you should select the mingw- base package for installation. To complete your initial installation, (or to subsequently manage it), using the mingw- get GUI, you should: Select a package category in the left hand (tree view) pane, to expose the package you wish to manage within the upper right hand (list view) pane; (for an initial installation, the Basic Setup category is a good choice, and is preselected by mingw- get- setup. Select the package you wish to manage, (e.
From the pop- up menu which appears, mark the package for subsequent application of the action you wish to perform, (e. Mark for Installation). Repeat the selection and marking operations, for any other packages you wish to manage. When you have completed selection and marking, open the Installation menu, (on the menu bar), and select the Apply Changes operation. Review the schedule of pending actions, then. Click the Apply button, to commit them.
Click the Defer button, if you wish to modify your marked selections before committing them. Click the Discard button, to go back and start again, without committing anything.
After Installing You Should .. Regardless of how you installed Min.
GW and/or MSYS, if yo did choose to install MSYS, you should check its configuration. You need to ensure that MSYS knows where Min. GW is located, so: Open a Windows Explorer window and locate your installation directory (i. C: \Min. GW, or any alternative you nominated during installation). Below your installation directory, you should find a directory named "msys", (normally in lower case letters, but mixed case, or all upper case is okay too); open this then find and open the additional subdirectories, "1. Within the "etc" directory, there should be a file named "fstab"; (if not, create one, as a new text file). Open this with a text editor; (you should be able to do this by right clicking on it, and in the popup menu select "Open" or "Open With", although you may find that you need to select a suitable editor application to do so).
Edit the file and ensure that it contains one line, (there may be others), which reads: C: \Min. GW /mingw. (substituting the FULL ABSOLUTE path of any alternative to C: \Min. GW, which you nominated during installation); ensure that you follow this path name entry with at least one space, or tab, before typing the "/mingw" entry.
Before you save the file, ensure that there is at least one blank line at the bottom, below all of the entries that may exist, then save and close the file. Additionally, if you have installed MSYS, you are advised to create a start menu "Min. GW Shell" shortcut in your "Start\Programs\Min. GW" folder, (which you may also need to create); this should invoke the C: \Min. GW\msys\1. 0\msys.
MSYS; (if you installed to an alternative directory, you should adjust the C: \Min. GW prefix accordingly). Double clicking this shortcut will then open a command window with the correct environment set up for you, including the correct path references, allowing you to run any of the Min. GW or MSYS applications within that command window. Your Min. GW and MSYS installations should now be ready for use. Caveats: (exceptions)If you ever intend to run Min.
GW or its applications using a cmd. PATH environment variable. Instructions for doing so are listed in the Environment Settings section below. Note: If you have installed MSYS as an add- on to Min. GW, you do not need to change your PATH environment variable, ( unless you also want to make your Min.
GW applications available to the cmd. Updating or Changing Your Min.
GW or MSYS Installation. There are two options for updating, adding, or removing components from your installation: Using the Min. GW Installation Manager ( mingw- get GUI ) Using the mingw- get CLI (Command Line Interface) Installer. Both methods will allow you to modify the original installation packages, in addition to the following available add- on packages: C++ (actually g++) fortran (Fortran 9.
Ada compiler) java (Java compiler) objc (Objective- C compiler) mingw. GNU make) gdb (GNU debugger) msys- base (MSYS shell environment)Using GUI Installer Development Snapshots.
The mingw- get application suite is under continuing development. If you are interested in participating in the evaluation and testing of the latest developments, even if your participation is limited to offering suggestions based on your user experience, your input will be greatly appreciated.