Hi
I've set MSYS+MinGW on my usb stick so I can have a portable compiler on the go.
I was wondering though, does MinGW write locally inside its folder? I don't want to shorten my usb stick's life.
Many thanks!
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Hi
I've set MSYS+MinGW on my usb stick so I can have a portable compiler on the go.
I was wondering though, does MinGW write locally inside its folder? I don't want to shorten my usb stick's life.
Many thanks!
I don't believe it does. I did a quick experiment with setting the \dev-cpp\bin director to read-only, and compile using gcc, and it seems to work fine.
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Mats
In any case you can use the TMPDIR environment variable to control where gcc generates temporary files. The default is to do it on the target directory, which I believe is what you will want anyways.
Thank both of you very much!
I will test whether or not my portable IDE is functional tomorrow at work.
I dont worry about usb drives and write backs - they are pretty cheap these days. I picked up an 8GB drive for under £20 the other day!Quote:
Originally Posted by glo
I use a stick drive for my most super duper secret hush hush stuff because I can lock it in the vault at days end. I dont really worry about the life of the stick, since an 8GB stick will give you millions of builds for pretty much the largest project for which you are likely to have sole physical control of the source. The sticks usually give you plenty of warning when they are starting to fail, so you can replace the stick at the first sign of trouble.
Not to mention the Kingston ones come with a 5 year warranty :)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan fiction?Quote:
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