This is mingw-utils, a collection of utilities (hopefully) useful for
MinGW and MSYS installations. It contains:
 redir A utility for redirecting stderr within CMD boxes
 reimp Converts certain MS-format import libs to GNU format
 [1] res2coff Converts .res resource files to .o object format
 [2] a2dll Create a DLL from a static archive
 dsw2mak Create gcc-compatible GNU Makefiles from Visual Studio
 6.0 workspaces
 [3] msys-here Launch an msys window from a Windows Explorer
 context menu
For more information on each tool, see the additional documentation
under C:\MinGW\share\doc\mingw-utils
[1] Possibly obsoleted by modern incarnations of windres.
[2] Not all DLLs created in this way will be functional. Use at your
 own risk.
[3] This initial release is not guaranteed to work. It is included
 in hopes of spurring outside assistance: Patches Thoughtfully
 Considered.
The following were once provided by older versions of mingw-utils,
but are now provided by other packages or sites.
 drmingw A JIT exception handler for Windows that can display
 debugging info. Now provided by
 http://code.google.com/p/jrfonseca/wiki/DrMingw
 dos2unix These two tools convert line endings, but have been
 unix2dos superseded by the cygutils-dos2unix package
 pexports Create .def file listing symbols from DLLS. Now
 provided separately.
Compiling
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To build mingw-utils from source, you need only do the standard
 $ configure
 $ make
 $ make install
However, the following configure arguments are recommended:
 $ configure --prefix=`cd /mingw && pwd -W` \
 --docdir=\${prefix}/share/doc/mingw-utils/0.4 \
 --enable-subproject-docdir
 $ make
To install into a temporary staging directory, do not use DESTDIR.
Instead, override prefix as follows:
 $ make install prefix=/tmp/mingw-utils-staging
Alternatively, instead of manually creating a "staging"
tree, after a successful build, you can use the following
rules to create MinGW-standard installation packages:
	$ make sdist bdist