Is MinGW/MSYS supposed to be supported now? Is a particular version required?
I've gotten builds to work with cygwin and wanted to try MinGW/MSYS. It ails almost immediately because it can't find cpio. It acts as though the uname result isn't recognized. I'm running on a 64-bit Windows 7 system. The complete config.log is attached, but the part that I think matters is here: hostname = USTR-SALTERTA-1 uname -m = i686 uname -r = 1.0.17(0.48/3/2) uname -s = MINGW32_NT-6.1 uname -v = 2011-04-24 23:39 ... configure:4413: found /usr/bin/cp configure:4425: result: /usr/bin/cp configure:4454: checking for cpio configure:4487: result: no configure:4502: Could not find cpio! configure:4504: error: Cannot continue Tom Salter | Software Engineer | Java & Middleware Development Unisys | 2476 Swedesford Road | Malvern, PA 19355 | 610-648-2568 | N385-2568
