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I'm Laurence Muller (M.Sc.) , a former Fellow of the
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Scientists' Discovery Room Lab (SDR Lab) at Harvard
University / School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
This is a short guide on how to install MinGW and MSYS using the latest stable. This guide has
(SEAS), where I worked on innovative scientific software for
been updated on 21/12/2011
multi-touch devices and display wall systems.

Requirements
I'm also the founder of Epic Windmill, a software company
that develops apps and games for mobile devices.
The MinGW installer package (mingw-get-inst-20111118.exe).
Java Runtime Environment (JRE 6, update 30)
Eclipse (Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers, select 32bit or 64bit depending on your
JRE)

Installing the MinGW and Msys

Run mingw-get-inst-20111118.exe
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Use the default folder (C:\MinGW)
When asked to select the components, choose: C Compiler, C++ Compiler, MSYS
Basic System and MinGW Developer Toolkit.
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Add C:\MinGW\bin;C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin; to your PATH system variables (at the CHI 2011 (Vancouver, BC, CA)
beginning). CHI 2012 (Austin, TX, USA)
Done. IDC 2009 (San Jose, CA, USA)
IEEE Tabletop 2008 (Amsterdam, NL)
Check if your PATH system variables look something like this: IEEE Tabletop 2009 (Banff, Canada)
SuperComputing 2008 (Austin, TX, USA)
TEI 2010 (Cambridge, MA, USA)
TEI 2011 (Funchal, Portugal)

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Install the IDE
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Install the JRE with the default settings Tim Roth

To install eclipse, unzip the content to C:\Program Files\eclipse Touchlib

Create a shortcut to Eclipse.exe on the desktop

Done.

Creating a HelloWorld Project Multitouch (commercial)

Apple iPad
Open up Eclipse
Apple iPhone
File > New > Project
MERL DiamondTouch
Select C/C++ > C++ Project
MS Surface
Click on Next
Perceptive Pixel
Change project name to Hello World
Click on Hello World C++ Project (Toolchain should show MinGW GCC)
Click Finish
On the left side, right click on your project (in the Project Explorer)
Science
Choose Build Project
Run > Run (or Run > Debug) Dr. C. Shen
The Console (at the bottom) should show !!!Hello World!!! Dr. R.G. Belleman
Youre all set. Harvard SEAS
Harvard University SDR Lab

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mingw-get install msys-unzip

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April 2007 (3)
Lukas
Have you compiled new OSG version 3.0.1 with MinGW ? do you have binariers ?

23 SEP 2011 | REPLY

Laurence Muller
Havent tried it yet, but I think the procedure should be the same.

12 OCT 2011 | REPLY

Guillaume
I archieve the tutorial.
Mingw is working well (I succeed to compile a program using windows cmd.exe). I
created a new project (with the c language instead of c++) , toolchain showed
Mingw gcc. But when i tried to run (ctrl F11) a error message appeared : Launch
Fail Binary not Found.

19 JUN 2012 | REPLY

Laurence Muller
Can you check with windows explorer if the binary is created properly?
Maybe eclipse uses the wrong path when trying to launch the executable.

20 JUN 2012 | REPLY

Adriaan
I had the same, I did a few things and then I didnt get the error anymore.

1) closed all other projects: right-mouse on this project and select Close
Unrelated Projects. Not sure if this ones relevant but I had a number of
Java projects opened so who knows
2) Project>> Clean >> clean all
3) Project>> Build All

That fixed Guillames error (which I was having too). I do think that theres
still something not going 100% right. This is the output in the Console now:

**** Build of configuration Debug for project hellocplusplus ****

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**** Internal Builder is used for build ****
Nothing to build for hellocplusplus

Any ideas?

13 AUG 2012 | REPLY

Laurence Muller
Ive updated the guide, seems like it doesnt autobuild the binary.
Just select your project on the left side, rightclick it and hit build
project. That will give you a working binary.

14 AUG 2012 | REPLY

Matt
I also had this problem. To fix, I reinstalled mingw and chose the option to
download the latest builds during the install and installed the optional things
with mingw console.

07 OCT 2012 | REPLY

Michel
I download the mingw-installer, it only offers to me 32 bit settings, I searched
about a 64 bit version of mingw, but it doesnt come with a setup , can you give
some reference about how can i install and configure mingw-64 for
OpenSceneGraph and sugest a good IDE for work?

06 MAY 2014 | REPLY

Laurence Muller
Hi Michel, unfortunately I havent tried out the 64bit version of MinGW so
Im not sure if it will work well with OpenSceneGraph. For the IDE, Id try to
use the latest 64 bit Eclipse with the C/C++ plugin.

16 MAY 2014 | REPLY

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