Re: [Mingw-users] Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap

["Theodore H. Smith" <delete@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Earnie,

This is not going well. I can't even get this thing installed.

I tried installing mingw on a fresh OS. And it wouldn't have it! Why  
isn't msys included as part of your simple installer thing??

Here is the error message I got: http://elfdata.com/mingw.png This  
shell script makes no sense. It trimmed off the first letter that I  
typed in.

Do you want people to use mingw? If so... you are making it very hard  
for new users to come in.

I don't want to know about fixing fstab files, or rebasing, or  
anything else like that. I just want an installer that just works. I  
have work to do and I can't get involved in spending days in learning  
and fixing all these complex fiddly details that you should have fixed  
in the installer, just to find out of mingw can actually compile a  
product which I like or not. The installer phase should be simple. Not  
a pain.

At least cygwin installed easily. (I Didn't install it on the OS that  
you saw a screenshot of, that was a different computer). But sadly it  
didn't let me build self-contained libraries. I was hoping that mingw  
would at least let me find out if it works or not, easily. But right  
now I can't even find out if it works or not.

I am not happy with this experience.

Also, you should make cygwin and mingw not clash with each other. It  
makes sense that people will try to install both just to try out which  
will work better for them. At least make it so that if one is  
deinstalled, the other will install flawlessly.

On 15 Apr 2008, at 12:45, Earnie Boyd wrote:

>
> Quoting "Theodore H. Smith" <delete@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>>>
>>> In the recent archives you'll find
>>> http://www.nabble.com/Subject:-Newbie-problem-with-installing-MSYS-td16005781.html
>>> which discusses this
>>> issue.
>>
>> Thanks a lot. It says this:
>>
>> "You wouldn't happen to have Cygwin installed would you?  If so make
>> sure that the CYGWIN environment variable isn't defined in your
>> environment.  May be a good idea to also remove the path to Cygwin's
>> bin directory from your PATH as well. "
>>
>>
>>
>> Now, I did install Cygwin. And then I deinstalled it, because I found
>> out that libraries compiled with Cygwin, required cygwin1.dll as a
>> separate lib, and my app must be self-contained!!! So deinstalled
>> cygwin, and I installed mingw.
>>
>> Now I find that there is some odd environment variable problem.  
>> Sad :(
>>
>> I don't know how to reset environment variables in Windows. Any idea
>> how I can do it? Is it with the terminal or do I alter a plain text
>> file or do I alter the registry?
>>
>
> If you didn't modify PATH to begin with you should be OK.  You missed
> the second part of that email which gave you instruction for rebasing
> the DLL.  I suggest you do that.
>
> Start->Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environment Variables
>
> At least that is what it is on my system; every windows version has  
> the
> possibility to be different.
>
> Earnie
>
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