[Insight-developers] New Compiler MSYS

[William A. Hoffman]

I have ported ITK to a new compiler, the mingw gcc compiler.
This is a non-cygwin based version of the gnu compiler.  The runtime
libraries are Microsoft and not cygwin, so it does not have a GPL runtime.

The build is currently experimental:

TRANTOR.­kitware Win32-mingw   

There are a few failing tests and some warnings.

To get mingw go here:
http://www.mingw.org/
http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml

Download
MSYS-1.0.10.exe
MinGW-3.0.0-1.exe

Install MinGW and MSYS in that order.

Then run the MSYS prompt, which will give you a bash shell.
You then run CMakeSetup from that shell and choose Unix Makefiles
for the generator.  Then run make from the MSYS shell.

-Bill