title: Setting up MSYS: ./configure is not recognized by Windows 7 as a command
body: <p>I'm following a <a href="http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~ying/McGill/MUMT618/STK_Windows_MinGW.htm">tutorial for installing Synthesis Toolkit on Windows 7</a></p>
  
  <p>I figured that I already installed MinGW and MSYS, and I should be able to skip the steps where he talks about how to install and setup the environment, but I typed all the commands to install:
  <code>gcc g++ mingw32-make gdb msys-base</code> again just to make sure everything is installed. I got errors saying all the requested packages have been installed. Then I made sure the path environment was set up according to the article. </p>
  
  <p>But when I tried to type in <code>./configure --enable-debug</code>, Windows kept saying that <code>.</code> is not recognized as a command.</p>
  
  <p>I did some googling and found out that MSYS is the one controlling this type command. So I reinstall both MinGW and MSYS, then set up the Path environment, restart my computer, and follow the tutorial again, but still no luck.</p>
  
  <p>There must be something wrong with MSYS. I don't think I set it up correctly because I only add <code>C:\MinGW\bin</code> to the path environment. I didn't do anything to MSYS, but I was using "mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe" to get MinGW and MSYS, I clicked on all the options that I can add to MinGW, I thought MSYS should be set up already after that.</p>
  
  <p>I can't use <code>.\configure</code> at all. And I saw other tutorials saying I need to mount MinGW to MSYS by using <code>mount c:/mingw /mingw</code>. But <code>mount</code> is not recognized by Windows 7 either. I'm thinking MSYS is the problem. There is one tutorial saying to "Set the environment variable <code>HOME</code> to <code>C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home</code>". So I look into the home folder, and it's empty. So I added <code>C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin</code> to the path environment. It didn't work out.</p>