:install
- Installs a mingw package from sourceforge using mingw-get.exe.:remove
- Uninstalls a mingw package.:upgrade
- Upgrades a mingw package (even to a lower version).
package
- A mingw-get package (or meta-package) to fetch and install. You may use a legal package wild-card pattern here if you are installing. This is the name attribute.root
- The root directory where msys and mingw tools will be installed. This directory must not contain any spaces in order to pacify old posix tools and most Makefiles.
To get the core msys developer tools in C:\mingw32
mingw_get 'msys-base=2013072300-msys-bin.meta' do
root 'C:\mingw32'
end