Using MSYS with MinGW

Using MSYS with MinGW
It is convenient to have your MinGW installation mounted on /mingw, since /mingw is on MSYS PATH by default. For this to work, just type (assuming MinGW is on c:\mingw):


mount c:/mingw /mingw
To install 3rd party library and applications which uses the autotools build system the following commands are often used.


./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install

Installing to "/usr/local" should be avoided, since the MinGW compiler won't look there by default.

http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS