[Haskell-cafe] Re: Unix emulation

[Lars Viklund]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:36:18AM -0700, Kevin Jardine wrote:
> In the past, installing it has only taken a few minutes. That still
> looks to be the case for MinGW but it now appears that msys has been
> split into a confusing and long list of packages. I think that it
> needs a standard installer as well (in fact the combined MinGW/msys
> package needs one standard installer as I think it is rare these days
> to use one without the other.)

When I need a msys+mingw environment, I tend to turn to msysgit's
netinstall package.
The only downside to it that I've noticed is that you seem to get a git
source tree for free when installing, as well as a spurious sdl-config
binary.

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

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Lars Viklund | zao at acc.umu.se