[Eric Niebler]
That's clearly not enough. Is there any step-by-step instructions I can follow to verify whether the fix is working or not? Sorry for the back and forth, but I've managed to get myself pretty confused.
[Nathan Ridge]
Those instructions seem to assume that you already have his MinGW distro installed. It's very simple to install, just follow the "How to install" section at http://nuwen.net/mingw.html.
Yep. Sorry, I wrote that for Vladimir without realizing that somebody else who wasn't familiar with the whole MinGW/MSYS story might read it. The MinGW instructions on my page, plus the MSYS instructions near the bottom, plus the additional clarification in the mail you were looking at, should be straightforward. I suppose there's one more thing to mention - MSYS is always 32-bit (and it need not match the bitness of MinGW). Ignore the fact that my MSYS zip is versioned as 10.4 - that's simply the last time I had to update it. STL