Re: Dead link to MinGW in Windows documentation - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Liam Bowen
Subject Re: Dead link to MinGW in Windows documentation
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Msg-id CAE7q7EjwvyObMvHSNjTD7K1Y_=GMfhp+LBdm_S_Pe07OvC=xLg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Dead link to MinGW in Windows documentation  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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If one is to recommend MSYS2, after downloading and installing it, the command to install bison and flex is just:

pacman -S flex bison

Then the bins end up (by default) in C:\MSYS64\usr\bin

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 5:37 AM Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 11:25 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>
> > On 17 Jan 2022, at 07:21, Liam Bowen <liambowen@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/install-windows-full.html --
> >
> > > Both Bison and Flex are included in the msys tool suite, available from http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS as part of the MinGW compiler suite.
> >
> > Aforementioned link is to a domain squatter.
> >
> > Perhaps MSYS2 could be used instead? https://packages.msys2.org/base
>
> Agreed, that seems like a better URL to refer to.  Unless there are objections
> I will fix that in all supported branches.

+1.

Note that there are two references to mingw.org -- also one in
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/installation-platform-notes.html as
well. They should both be fixed.

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