How to Install MPC on a Windows Box with Cygwin
Make sure that perl is installed on your system. If it is not, then run setup.exe, and install perl. You need only install the base package "Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Report Language".
My favorite Cygwin mirror is of course http://acumensoftwareinc.com:8088.
Goto OciWeb and download the most recent tar.gz file.
Or you can get version 3_3_85 from here
choose a directory to place the file. I chose /usr/local/bin.
cd /usr/local/bin
tar zxvf ~/MPC_3_4_19.tar.gz
This installs mpc.pl and mwc.pl in /usr/local/bin/MPC
edit the environment table:
- ctrl escape
- settings
- control panel
- advanced
- environment table
add c:\"cygwin package directory"\usr\local\bin\MPC; to the PATH
In my case "cygwin package directory" = cygwin, so I appended c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\MPC; to the PATH variable
Note that this must be done from the environment table editor, and not with the export command in Cygwin Bash.
The path search, doesn't always work correctly when edited from Cygwin Bash.
Restart the bash shell, and "mpc.pl -version" should say MPC v3.4.19