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Enhancement
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Resolution: Won't Fix
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P4
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8
In help.m4, there is support in HELP_MSG_MISSING_DEPENDENCY to display on different systems how to install missing dependencies.
msys support is missing.
On msys, there is a tool very much like apt-get that is "mingw-get".
To install packages you do "mingw-get install <package>".
On msys, apart from normal msys installation, three packages are needed:
msys-mktemp msys-unzip msys-zip
for mktemp, unzip and zip respectively.
When looking for these tools, if we fail to find them, we should call HELP_MSG_MISSING_DEPENDENCY, and we should add them to an msys section in help.m4.
I believe the "how to install missing dependencies" stuff is a really great addition to the configure script that will much relieve the mailing list from recurring questions. I believe it is important to get this good.
msys support is missing.
On msys, there is a tool very much like apt-get that is "mingw-get".
To install packages you do "mingw-get install <package>".
On msys, apart from normal msys installation, three packages are needed:
msys-mktemp msys-unzip msys-zip
for mktemp, unzip and zip respectively.
When looking for these tools, if we fail to find them, we should call HELP_MSG_MISSING_DEPENDENCY, and we should add them to an msys section in help.m4.
I believe the "how to install missing dependencies" stuff is a really great addition to the configure script that will much relieve the mailing list from recurring questions. I believe it is important to get this good.