On Sat, 30 Dec 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 30.12.2017 um 18:30 schrieb Sven Schreiber: > >> Then the setup.sh script said it was satisfied. I had to read carefully >> again to understand where I was supposed to execute "make", but now it is >> running. Let's see what the result is. > > OK, after make and make install I now have something under opt/gretl/bin > (relative to the msys64 base directory). Namely I can double-click > gretlrun.cmd to start GUI gretl (in English, presumably the MinGW default > language). It shows today's date, so it seems not to be my previous, > downloaded, snapshot. > I cannot directly click gretl.exe or gretl.exe, that gives an error dialog > window.
Clicking directly on the gretl binaries will work if you add your mingw64 "bin" directory to your Windows PATH, not otherwise. Please take a look at section 5 of the gretl-winbuild guide (the bit on the making a shortcut). Allin
