orlp / dev-on-windows

An opiniated guide to set up a development environment on Windows.

See the wiki.

dev-on-windows's Issues

How to add PATHs properly

You say in your instructions My recommendation is to inherit the path for the MinGW32/64 environments, but keeping the MSYS environment pure.

How do you separately control the PATHs in the different environments?

pipwin3 also needs pipwin3-script.py

The wiki page for Python mentions:

Make sure for Python3 to go to your Python's scripts folder (C:\Python3X\Scripts) and copy pipwin.exe to pipwin3.exe.

However, I also needed to copy pipwin-script.py to pipwin3-script.py for it to work.

Another issue that may be worth mentioning in the wiki is that the Python 2.7 installer may not install pip for some reason; this can be fixed by running python -m ensurepip -v.

Add Qt-Creator tutorial

hi, i created a qt installation tutorial using msys2, you can add it here if you like
https://gist.github.com/bigworld12/c2f2ec25af416f72b6c5f3a9fb4df16f

update-core doesn't appear to do anything

I downloaded msys2-x86_64-latest.exe
I then issued the pacman -Sy msys2-launcher-git command which seemed to complete OK.
I then issued the update-core command, received the message bash: update-core: command not found

What now?

Add Link Shell Extension to Invaluable Software

I find Link Shell Extension to be incredibly useful for creating symbolic links and hard links (and other kinds) without having to resort to Windows' ugly command line tools.

In step 1 of the wiki, msys2-x86_64-latest.exe URL is outdated

When downloading the version in this link, I got repeated "unrecognized file format" after running pacman -Syuu . This was fixed by installing the latest version of msys2 from their website, https://www.msys2.org/.

Documentation of installing new library ?

Salut,

Can you make a documentation for installing a library or toolchain in msys2 ?

Configure, compile and install:

make -f win32/Makefile.gcc install BINARY_PATH=/mingw64/bin \
INCLUDE_PATH=/mingw64/include LIBRARY_PATH=/mingw64/lib
cd ..

This might be usefull, but I need more details how it can be used.