Re: Problem: compiling gcc v3.1.5 with Mingw on win32

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:32:14 +0200
> From: Stepan Kasal <address@hidden>
> 
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:48:11PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > [...] there's no MinGW port of Bash or another Unixy shell.
> 
> I've just stumbled over one:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=82724&release_id=158862

Close, but no cigar: this is MSYS, which is, in a nutshell, a
stripped-down version of Cygwin.  It will not work cleanly with MinGW
ports of auxiliary utilities required to run a typical configure
script (mv, rm, grep, sed, etc.); you need to have a separate
installation of MSYS ports of these.

What is needed is a bona fide native Windows port of a Unixy shell
(Bash or zsh) which will understand Windows d:/foo/bar file names,
will not play any funky text/binary I/O games but instead use the
default text-mode I/O, etc.