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 Assuming Windows XP 32.  We will use MinGW to build the libraries and application and MSYS as a working environment. Assuming Windows XP 32.  We will use MinGW to build the libraries and application and MSYS as a working environment.
  
-The distinction between MinGW and MSYS is very important: MinGW is a set of compilers and libraries you use to build Windows applications, while MSYS is a GNU environment similar to (and, in fact, based on) Cygwin.  You can //not// use MSYS libraries in your Windows application.+The distinction between MinGW and MSYS is very important: MinGW is a set of compilers and libraries you use to build Windows applications, while MSYS is an emulated GNU environment similar to (and, in fact, based on) Cygwin.  You can //not// use MSYS libraries in your Windows application.  This means that you will sometimes have two copies of a particular library: an MSYS version used by MSYS tools, and a native version built with MinGW and used by MinGW tools and / or your application. 
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 +===== Directories ===== 
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 +We will install MinGW into ''C:\MinGW'' and MSYS into ''C:\MSYS''. 
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 +MSYS maps Unix-like paths to Windows paths: ''/'' translates to ''C:\MSYS'' and ''/mingw'' translates to ''C:\MinGW''.  In addition, all Windows drives will show up as ''/x'', where ''x'' corresponds to the drive letter, so ''/c/windows'' translates to ''C:\windows'', etc. 
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 +We will install our libraries and applications into ''C:\met.no''.  You should start by creating that directory and the required subdirectories: 
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 +  C:\> mkdir met.no 
 +  C:\> mkdir met.no\bin 
 +  C:\> mkdir met.no\include 
 +  C:\> mkdir met.no\lib 
 +  C:\> mkdir met.no\share 
 +  C:\> mkdir met.no\copyright
  
 ===== Subversion ===== ===== Subversion =====
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 At this point, you may want to download bsdtar from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW%20Utilities/basic%20bsdtar/bsdtar-2.7.900a_r1628-20091110/ and install ''bsdtar.exe'' as ''/mingw/bin/tar''.  It supports a wider range of archive formats and compression algorithms than GNU tar, and automatically detects which one to use. At this point, you may want to download bsdtar from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW%20Utilities/basic%20bsdtar/bsdtar-2.7.900a_r1628-20091110/ and install ''bsdtar.exe'' as ''/mingw/bin/tar''.  It supports a wider range of archive formats and compression algorithms than GNU tar, and automatically detects which one to use.
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 +You may want to install InfoZip's ''zip'' utility as well, since ''bsdtar'' can //extract// zip files but not //create// them: download the source code from http://sourceforge.net/projects/infozip/files/, extract it, and run the following commands in the source directory:
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 +  $ make -f win32/makefile.gcc
 +  $ cp zip.exe /mingw/bin
  
 ===== MSYS ===== ===== MSYS =====
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   $ tar -kxf bison-2.4.1-lib.zip -C /MinGW   $ tar -kxf bison-2.4.1-lib.zip -C /MinGW
  
-===== m4 =====+This will install a shell script called ''/MinGW/bin/yacc'' which incorrectly redirects to ''c:/progra~1/bison/bin/bison''.  Edit it so the entire script looks like this:
  
-MSYS comes with m4 1.4.7, which is too old for our purposes.  Follow the same procedure as for lexx & yacc above; you will need the ''bin'' and ''dep'' zipfiles.+  #! /bin/sh 
 +  exec /mingw/bin/bison -y "$@"
  
 ===== WiX ===== ===== WiX =====
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