Stephen, I understand your point of view and appreciate your efforts. Please continue to maintain the msys2 documentation.
I'm not quite satisfied with the general guide for Windows, though, so please allow me to write something. I think that may well fit into INSTALL itself. Do you have any useful hints for what build system to choose for Windows? I mean Cygwin vs the others is somewhat obvious - either you want that POSIX emulation layer or you don't. But all of the MinGW versions confuse me a lot. Why did you choose MinGW64 over MinGW-w64 (!) [0], for example? What about the different C++ exception and threading models? Which one did you (or mingw/msys2) use? What effect do these options possibly have on monotone? Let alone the issue of cross-compiling 32-bit binaries from a 64-bit system & tool chain. (And vice versa?) And then there is also MSVC... Granted, most of that should be MinGW / Msys / MinGW-w64 project documentation. And I certainly agree with you that their docs need some love. I find it hard to believe they are not interested in good documentation. Maybe they are not interested in monotone build protocols, yes. Of course, we cannot ever test all possible combinations. We don't do that on any Unix, either. But rather than listing just one or two very specific combinations, we can still state the options, their requirements, what's known to work or fail (for example the issue you faced with gcc 4.6.2). FWIW, I also plan to keep my buildbot on msys 1.0, for now. While I don't intend to maintain the INSTALL_windows_mingw.txt document to the level of detail you used to do it, I'd still like to keep something in there that clarifies that MinGW / Msys 1.0 is known to work. Dropping the file, as you suggested, would lose that knowledge. I'll eventually write up something. Regards Markus Wanner [0] the MinGW-w64 download page: http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/download.php
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