DEPRECATED, see our new windows setup.

MinGW Setup

Some convenience config for our Windows users who want to work with MinGW and Git Bash.

download and install mingw (run as administrator)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/latest/download?source=files

1. Install for all users
2. Once downloaded, in the MinGW Installation Manager window, select mingw-developer-toolkit
3. Under Installation tab, select Apply changes

You may also want to install additional Unix tools, such as the nano text editor.

Download mintty for msys

https://code.google.com/p/mintty/downloads/list

example: mintty-1.1.3-msys.zip

and extract to mingw: C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin\

Make a shortcut

Create a shortcut called Terminal (or whatever you like) using the following settings:

Target:   C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin\mintty.exe /bin/env CHERE_INVOKING=1 /bin/bash -l

If you'd like the shortcut to appear in your Start Menu, you can open the following path in Windows Explorer and create it there.

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

Pinning the shortcut to the Windows Start Bar doesn't currently work.

Download Git SCM

https://msysgit.github.io/

Install Git

1. Uncheck all components except Use a trutype font
2. Choose to Use Git from git bash only
3. If the installer asks you to choose an SSH executable, use OpenSSH
4. checkout as-is style, commit unix style

Previous versions of the instructions recommended "checkout windows, commit unix" but that is a less good option. If you need to change this setting, you can just re-run the Git installer.

Get the 'make work good' sauce

Open git bash and run the following commands:

cd /C/MinGW
git init
git remote add origin https://github.com/OULibraries/MinGW-Setup.git
git fetch
git checkout --track origin/master

Close git bash.

Open terminal. It will do some configuration and ask you to close out.

Open terminal again, and you should have a nice shell that fires up an ssh agent and has your windows user profile mounted to /home/username

Your.ssh folder

When you get to this point, you probably won't have a /home/username/.ssh folder, so you'll need to create taht.

Your ssh keys

Use ssh-keygen to generate a public/private keypair and email Jason your public key.

Your .ssh/config file

You'll also need an .ssh/config file that has the right set up for the broker boxes that you'll be using. Ask Jason or Logan for a copy.