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(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 11:25 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On 17 Jan 2022, at 07:21, Liam Bowen <liambowen(at)gmail(dot)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
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