Installing MinGW

Systems Experience Validation and Systems Experience Player require MinGW to be installed depending on how you use the apps.

This task shows you how to:

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Install MinGW for Windows

Systems Experience Validation and Systems Experience Player require MinGW installation to compile.

  1. To install MinGW:
    1. Download the MinGW-W64-install.exe compiler from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/.
    2. Start the generic MinGW-W64 installer and specify the following parameters:

      • Version: 8.1.0
      • Architecture: x86_64
      • Threads: posix
      • Exception: sjlj
      • Build revision: 0

    3. Select the installation folder.

      Note: Do not use spaces or special characters in paths.

  2. Enter the path of the MinGW bin folder in your configuration file for both MinGW and MSYS.
  3. Before compiling, duplicate the file mingw32-make.exe located in mingw64/bin and rename it make.exe.

    For more information about this renaming, see https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/wiki2/Make/.

    Note: You can also directly rename mingw32-make.exe to make.exe if you are sure to use MinGW only for Systems Experience Validation and Systems Experience Player.

Install MinGW for Linux

Systems Experience Validation and Systems Experience Player require MinGW installation to build and execute Windows models on Linux servers. For more information about cross compilation, see http://www.mingw.org/wiki/LinuxCrossMinGW.

  1. To install MinGW, download toolchains from the MinGW download page:https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/.

    • For the 32-bit version, click the Toolchains targetting Win32 link, click Automated Builds, and download the mingw-w32-bin_x86_64-linux_xxx.tar.bz2 archive.
    • For the 64-bit version, click the Toolchains targetting Win64 link, click Automated Builds, and download the mingw-w64-bin_x86_64-linux_xxx.tar.bz2 archive.

  2. Create the following directories:

    • For the 32-bit version, /opt/mingw32
    • For the 64-bit version, /opt/mingw64

  3. Unpack MinGW archive, such as follows:

    • For the 32-bit version, to unpack to the /opt/mingw32 directory, run the command: 
      tar -xjf mingw-w32-bin_x86_64-linux_xxx.tar.bz2
    • For the 64-bit version, to unpack to the /opt/mingw64 directory, run the command: 
      tar -xjf mingw-w64-bin_x86_64-linux_xxx.tar.bz2