Dead link to MinGW in Windows documentation

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#1Liam Bowen
liambowen@gmail.com

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

Which is used for the official builds on EnterpriseDB?

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Liam Bowen

#2Daniel Gustafsson
daniel@yesql.se
In reply to: Liam Bowen (#1)
Re: Dead link to MinGW in Windows documentation

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.

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Daniel Gustafsson https://vmware.com/

#3Magnus Hagander
magnus@hagander.net
In reply to: Daniel Gustafsson (#2)
Re: Dead link to MinGW in Windows documentation

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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Magnus Hagander
Me: https://www.hagander.net/
Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com

#4Liam Bowen
liambowen@gmail.com
In reply to: Magnus Hagander (#3)
Re: Dead link to MinGW in Windows documentation

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:

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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.

--
Magnus Hagander
Me: https://www.hagander.net/
Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com