Re: Failure to bootstrap on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 10:31:52 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>  >>   >> $ echo $PATH
>  >>   >> 
> .:/c/Devel/emacs/build/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/c/bin64/Git/cmd
>  >>                                        ^^^^^^^^^
>  >> What is bin:/bin:?
>  >
>  > No, it's /mingw/bin:bin:.  The separator is the colon, Posix-style.
> 
> So mingw is a subdirectory of msys.

Not necessarily, it could be "mounted" anywhere.  See the instructions
in http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started, under "After Installing
You Should ...".  nt/INSTALL points to those instructions.

> Is that the preferred way?  Here msys is a subdirectory of mingw.

On my system, MSYS and MinGW are installed in sibling directories, and
/mingw/bin is not mapped to anything.  It's okay either way, provided
that you configure the rest correctly.

>  >>     Do NOT add the MSYS bin directory to your Windows Path!  Only the
>  >>     MinGW bin directory should be on Path.
>  >
>  > That's in the opposite direction.  What I said above is about the PATH
>  > seen by MSYS Bash, not the PATH seen by the rest of Windows
>  > applications.
> 
> What do I do to ensure that "MinGW's bin directory" is "_after_ the MSYS
> directories" in MSYS Bash?

One way is to set up PATH in your ~/.bash_profile file.