[Coco] Building NITROS9

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

For my experience MinGW is painfully slow. Cygwin is 10x faster. But if you
want it to be really super duper faster install linux you won't regret and
you will ask why in the hell have you been using windows before...


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

> Bill Pierce wrote:
>
>>
>> Aaron, I trid the new installer a couple of weeks ago and it didn't work
>> for me either. Nothing seems to get installed but the installer no matter
>> what I do. I had to revert back to the old installer.
>> The one I'm using is mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe
>>
>> Bill Pierce
>>
>
> Here is what is on my WinXP system: msys 1.0.10, mingw 5.1.6, mingw-get
> 0.5B-20120426-1. Since I also build MESS, I've got mingw64-w32 installed.
> That may or may not impact building NitrOS-9.
>
> Msys uses msys/1.0/etc/fstab to indicate where mingw is located. Mine
> (fstab) points to the version of mingw I use for NitrOS-9 not the one I use
> for MESS.
> The mingw package includes mingw32-gcc-4.6.2.exe .
> Msys also includes the directory 1.0/local/bin in which you must include
> the appropriate tools to build NitrOS-9. That used to be mamou.exe,
> rma.exe, and rlink.exe. Since NitrOS-9 now uses the lwtools package, you
> will need lwar.exe, lwasm.exe, lwlink.exe, and maybe lwobjdump.exe .
>
> Robert
>
>
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