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C++ for C Coders & Data Structures

Lecture Notes by [email protected]

Using Mintty in MinGW/Msys

Instead of using cmd or powershell, I recommend you to use the better terminal emulators mintty available.

Open a mingw/msys default console

  • Create a shortcut for c:/mingw/msys/1.0/msys.bat. Do the right click on the msys.bat and create a shortcut. You may move the shortcut to the Desktop for your convenience.
  • Click the shortcut and you will see a console. Execute the following commands at the console.
    • ls
    • pwd
  • Now when we open a new console, we want to make it start at the folder we often use and do something more. This can be done using .profile.
  • Go to the c:/mingw/msys/1.0/home/user/ and start Atom editor.
    • cd c:/mingw/msys/1.0/home/user
    • Atom .profile
  • Create a file at c:/mingw/msys/1.0/home/user/.profile with the following contents:
# Created by [email protected]
# This .profile is to be placed in C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\user and
#     set Target in the shortcut C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat --rxvt
# For mintty
#     set Target in the shortcut C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat -–mintty

alias ls='ls -aFh --color=auto'
alias ll='ls -alkF'
alias rm='rm -i'
alias c='clear'
alias h='history'

echo c:/minGW/msys/1.0$(pwd)/.profile

# Setting my dev folder as a startup folder of msys.
# HOME="/c/users/${LOGNAME}/DropBox"
HOME="/c/users/${LOGNAME}/Documents/GitHub/nowic"
cd $HOME

# @$(hostname) may be added, if necessary, after $(whoami)
PS1='$(whoami) $(pwd -W)> '

Install Mintty

This can be done either at the MinGW command line or via the MinGW Installation Manager. From the MinGW command line, run mingw-get install mintty.

mingw-get install mintty.

Configure MSYS.

Next, you need to edit the shortcut you use to run the MinGW shell. Right-click the msys shortcut and select Properties. Wherever you find your link, the Target should be C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat, potentially with some command-line arguments following it. If an argument selecting a shell is already present (such as --rxvt), remove it.

Finally, add --mintty as the first argument after C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat in the shortcut.

Now, when launching the MinGW shell through that short-cut, mintty will be used instead of the Windows terminal emulator. Refer to the complete instructions in this site.

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