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WinEnv4MinGW-GCC

This is a Windows environment initiator for MinGW-GCC.

Currently, the most outstanding feature of it is the make command for mingw32-make.exe.

Getting Started

Note: In order to use this, you need to have access to use mklink command in Windows command prompt.

1. Get a copy of the env folder into your destination directory. You can get it from this repository via clones or downloads (or whatever you prefer). (You are strongly recommended to put the env folder in the root of your project directory)
2. Run env\init.bat to initialize the environment. (You may then set the name of the environment in the env\env_name.txt)
3. All is done! You can now use the env\activate.bat to activate the environment and use the mingw32-make.exe via the make command. (As long as you have MinGW-GCC set in your PATH variable)

To deactivate the environment, simply run env\deactivate.bat in the command prompt.

The script env\deinit.bat will remove the env\bin\ directory from disk. The script env\reinit.bat will re-initialize the environment.

Advanced Tutorial of Getting Started

If you want to make the env, which is under root directory, be able to be updated with git, you can follow these extra steps:

1. You may clone this repository into somewhere, like keep_local\WinEnv4MinGW-GCC under the root directory.
2. Execute mklink /J env .\keep_local\WinEnv4MinGW-GCC\env under the root directory.
3. Now you can update the env folder with git under .\keep_local\WinEnv4MinGW-GCC\.

Notes

• If you’re working on a disk with different drive letter from time to time, you may need to run env\reinit.bat every time it changes.
• If you’re working on multiple MinGW-GCC versions, you may need to run env\reinit.bat every time you switch to a new version.

Working Principle

• Script env\init.bat will create a new directory env\bin\ and use which and mklink to create symbolic links to the MinGW-GCC executables.
• Script env\activate.bat will add the env\bin\ directory to the PATH environment variable.
• Script env\deactivate.bat will remove the env\bin\ directory from the PATH environment variable.
• Script env\deinit.bat will remove the env\bin\ directory from disk.
• Script env\reinit.bat will delete the env\bin\ directory’s contents and re-initialize the environment.

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