Please report bugs as directed at http://mingw.org/Reporting_Bugs
-First Time Installation of a Binary Release
--------------------------------------------
+First Time Installation of a Current Binary Release
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+Note that, as of release 0.6.0, the installation procedure for mingw-get
+has been significantly simplified. The installation instructions which
+follow relate to this release, and later; for instructions relating to
+any earlier release, or if you are unable to run the new setup tool on
+any legacy version of Windows, please refer to the following section,
+under the heading "First Time Installation of a Legacy Binary Release".
To install mingw-get, visit the MinGW files repository at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files
-and, from the "Automated MinGW Installer/mingw-get" folder,
+then, from the "Installer" folder,
+download and run mingw-get-setup.exe, and select your choices from the
+options presented [*], to install mingw-get. When this has completed,
+you will then be offered the option to immediately continue with the
+installation of a basic selection of MinGW packages [**]. If you do
+choose to continue with package selection, this will be processed by an
+integrated preview of the mingw-get GUI application, (regardless of
+whether you have accepted or declined the option to install the GUI); to
+complete your initial installation:--
+
+- Select individual packages, within the upper right hand "list-view"
+ pane of the GUI window;
+
+- From the "Package" menu, (which also appears as a pop-up, when you
+ click the status icon at the left hand side of the list entry), select
+ the option to "Mark for Installation", in respect of each package
+ which you wish to install;
+
+- Having so marked all packages which you wish to install, from the
+ "Installation" menu select the "Apply Changes" option, to complete
+ your initial installation.
+
+After you have completed the installation of mingw-get, as described
+above, and regardless of whether you chose to install additional
+packages, or not, you are advised to review the configuration, as
+specified in your profile.xml file, and noting in particular, any new
+features which are described in the supplied defaults.xml file, if you
+have a profile.xml from a previous release; please refer to the section
+below, under the heading "Specifying the Configuration", for details.
+
+[*] By default, mingw-get-setup.exe will offer to install mingw-get into
+the "C:\MinGW" directory. You are *strongly* recommended to adopt this
+default; however, if you do decide to change it, please *do* choose an
+alternative with no white space within its absolute path name.
+In particular, those who choose to ignore
+this advice, and install MinGW into some subdirectory of (for example)
+C:\Program Files", usually discover to their cost that certain
+tools may not work correctly.
+
+[**] The set of packages offered, as the foundation for a basic
+installation, are equivalent to those offered by the mingw-get-inst.exe
+companion to earlier releases of mingw-get. Unlike mingw-get-inst.exe,
+mingw-get-setup.exe, does *not* insist that you install the basic GCC
+compiler suite. You are free to install it, or not, at your own option;
+if you do wish to install it, please select the "mingw32-base" package,
+which is the equivalent of the minimum mandatory selection imposed by
+mingw-get-inst.exe
+
+
+First Time Installation of a Legacy Binary Release
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+The instructions which follow relate to the installation of mingw-get
+releases prior to version 0.6.0; they also apply in the case of later
+versions, where a legacy version of Windows may not permit you to run
+the new mingw-get-setup.exe tool. For installation of release 0.6.0, or
+any later release, using the new tool, please refer to the preceeding
+section, under the heading "First Time Installation of a Current Binary
+Release".
+
+To install mingw-get, visit the MinGW files repository at:
+
+ http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files
+
+and, from the "Installer/mingw-get-<version>-<class>-<release>" folder,
download your choice of either:
- {PACKAGE_DISTNAME}-bin.zip
+ mingw-get-<version>-mingw32-<class>-<release>-bin.zip
or (preferred, if you know how to unpack it):
- {PACKAGE_DISTNAME}-bin.tar.gz
+ mingw-get-<version>-mingw32-<class>-<release>-bin.tar.xz
Whichever of these you choose to download, you should unpack it into
the directory in which you intend to host your MinGW installation; (we
then please substitute your alternative prefix, as appropriate, where this
document refers to C:\MinGW.
-[**] If you have chosen {PACKAGE_DISTNAME}-bin.tar.gz as your installation
+[**] If you have chosen {PACKAGE_DISTNAME}-bin.tar.xz as your installation
source, rather than {PACKAGE_DISTNAME}-bin.zip, you may like to create the
directory:
from libxz sources no older than version 4.999.9beta, with a snapshot
release date of 2009-12-09 or later).
+- A statically linkable liblua.a for the native MS-Windows host,
+ together with its associated header files; (this should be binary
+ compatible with the lua-5.2.0 release, as offered by MinGW.org).
+
+- A statically linkable libwtklite.a, together with its associated
+ header files; (this is a MinGW.org specific product, currently offered
+ only in source format, which you are advised to build and install for
+ yourself).
+
Having provisioned a suitable build platform, with these pre-requisite
libraries installed, you should obtain and unpack the source tarball,
{PACKAGE_DISTNAME}-src.tar.gz, in any working directory of your choice,
unpacking it in the /mingw root directory, on any host you choose.
-Building and Installing from Source in CVS
+Building and Installing from Source in Git
------------------------------------------
If, rather than building mingw-get from the source code provided in the
development within the public CVS repository, there are a few additional
pre-requisites which you must satisfy on your build platform:
-- You must have a CVS client, which you can use to fetch the source code
+- You must have either a git client, or a mercurial client with the
+ hggit extension enabled, which you can use to fetch the source code
from the repository, and subsequently keep it current.
- You must have the GNU autoconf package, with a version number of 2.59
Provided you can satisfy (at least the first three of) these additional
pre-requisites, you may check out the latest source code thus [*]:
-! $ export CVSROOT
-! $ CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@mingw.cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/mingw
-! $ cvs login
-! $ cvs -z3 co -P mingw-get
+! $ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/mingw/mingw-get
+
+or:
+
+! $ hg clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/mingw/mingw-get
This will create a working copy of the mingw-get source tree, in the
-mingw-get subdirectory of your current working directory.
+mingw-get subdirectory of your current working directory [**].
[*] If you are an accredited MinGW Developer, you may prefer to use the
-:ext: access protocol of CVS, in conjunction with your registered SSH
-keys, to access the CVS repository; in this case, you should know the
+SSH access protocol for git, in conjunction with your registered SSH
+keys, to access the git repository; in this case, you should know the
appropriate procedure to use, in place of the above.
-Having thus obtained your working copy of the source code from the CVS
+[**] Note that, if you are a git user, you *must* perform an additional
+checkout step, (which is not necessary for hg users):
+
+! $ cd mingw-get
+! $ git submodule add ../build-aux
+
+Having thus obtained your working copy of the source code from the git
repository, you should then:
! $ cd mingw-get
! $ autoconf
-to generate the configure script, and then:
+(git users should omit the 'cd mingw-get' step, since they will already
+be in the appropriate directory, following the addition of the build-aux
+submodule), to generate the configure script, and then:
! $ mkdir obj
! $ cd obj
! $ ../configure --prefix=/mingw [options ...]
! $ make
-to progress the build [**], as in the previous case of building from the
-source code extracted from a distribution tarball.
+to progress the build [***], as in the previous case of building from
+the source code extracted from a distribution tarball.
-[**] Notice that here we choose to build in a subdirectory called obj;
-when building from source in CVS, building in-source becomes even less
+[***] Notice that here we choose to build in a subdirectory called obj;
+when building from source in git, building in-source becomes even less
desirable than it is when building from distributed source. The choice
of obj for the build directory name is dictated by the configuration of
-mingw-get's CVS module itself; cvs "knows" that this directory does not
-contain any source files of interest to it.
+mingw-get's git module itself; both git and hg "know" that this
+directory does not contain any source files of interest to them.
$RCSfile$: end of file
recorded in the NEWS file, which is included in the source code package.
+mingw-get-0.6.0-mingw32-beta-20130904-1
+---------------------------------------
+
+Release date: 2013-09-04
+
+This is the first release to incorporate a working prototype for the
+mingw-get GUI client, together with the integrated mingw-get-setup.exe
+tool. With the advent of these additional capabilities, the existing
+mingw-get-inst.exe wrapper becomes redundant, and is now deprecated;
+it will be withdrawn after the next mingw-get release.
+
+With this release of mingw-get-setup.exe, first time installation of
+mingw-get has become considerably simpler than previously; please see
+the "Installation Instructions" for further information.
+
+In addition to the addition of the GUI client, and the simplified first
+time installation procedure, this release incorporates the following new
+user visible features:--
+
+- New "preferences" section in profile.xml; this allows users to adjust
+ the default behaviour for command line options such as "--start-menu"
+ and "--desktop", to allow the automatic creation of shortcuts, (for
+ packages which provide them), without requiring explicit specification
+ of the option on every mingw-get invocation. See the comments within
+ defaults.xml, for configuration instructions.
+
+- The output from "mingw-get --help" has been revised, to provide a
+ better explanation of the use of the "version selection" feature,
+ which allows users to force installation of a particular non-current
+ version of any package.
+
+- The "gui.exe" subsidiary program has been renamed as "guistub.exe"; it
+ remains in place, with this new name, to furnish diagnostics, in the
+ event that the user attempts to invoke the GUI from the command line,
+ when no GUI support has been installed. Such GUI support is now
+ provided by "guimain.exe"; this may be installed optionally, by
+ choosing to install the "mingw-get-gui" package.
+
+- Internal "globbing" of command line arguments is now explicitly
+ disabled; (any benefit of ever having supported this seems dubious;
+ however, external "globbing" by shells, such as MSYS' sh.exe and
+ bash.exe is not, and cannot be, affected by this change).
+
+- For users wishing to follow development at the source code level, the
+ master source code repository has been relocated from CVS, to a new
+ git repository at git://git.code.sourceforge.net/p/mingw/mingw-get;
+ please refer to the INSTALL file, in the current source distribution,
+ for further information on accessing this repository.
+
+
mingw-get-0.5-mingw32-beta-20120426-1
-------------------------------------
as --start-menu=all-users, to make such shortcuts available in the
start menus of all users.
+;--------8<-------------------- cut-line -------------------->8--------
+;
+; Any text added below the cut-line will be included in the README
+; file, which is to be included in the source distribution, but it
+; will be excluded from the readme.txt file, which is to be used to
+; add descriptive content on the SourceForge download page.
+;
+; Any lines, such as these, which begin with a semicolon in their
+; first column (not indented), will be excluded from both files.
mingw-get-0.4-mingw32-alpha-1
-----------------------------
licence packages associated with all runtime dependencies identified
for the packages named in the command.
-;--------8<-------------------- cut-line -------------------->8--------
-;
-; Any text added below the cut-line will be included in the README
-; file, which is to be included in the source distribution, but it
-; will be excluded from the readme.txt file, which is to be used to
-; add descriptive content on the SourceForge download page.
-;
-; Any lines, such as these, which begin with a semicolon in their
-; first column (not indented), will be excluded from both files.
mingw-get-0.3-mingw32-alpha-2.1
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