I can't find my MinGW shell after installing with GUI installer

Question

I used Mingw_get_inst and installed the MinGW compiler suite following the instructions on the howto page. I used the GUI installer. I then changed the path to include C:\MingW; . When I go to Start menu -> all programs -> MingW the only file that exists inside of there is a uninstaller. The howto page says a shell should be there... can someone help me get this working?

Howto page on Mingw.org: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started

Answer 1

simply you could run it from the following batch file:

e.g. C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat (if you installed your mingw in c drive)

for more info. about mysys, check this

Answer 2

Look at the install logs for your Mingw.

I have 2 bin dirs in my (single) installation of Mingw

C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin 

and

C:\MinGW\bin 

A lot has changed about Mingw in the last 2-3 years and I think some documentation you might find easily via google is out-of-date.

Try asking for help at mingw mail groups via Nabble (very easy to use)

IHTH