MinGW

Minimalist GNU for Windows is indeed mimimalist: it is not a full POSIX subsystem, and provides no package manager. Therefore, you will have to make some adjustments and install the dependencies yourself.

Matt P. Dziubinski successfully used Apophenia via MinGW; here are his instructions (with edits by BK):

For the Python interface, get Python Windows installer from: http://python.org/download/

If installed to "c:\bin\prog\Python2", for example, you'll need to set:
```
export PYTHON=/C/bin/prog/Python2/python
```

Get SWIG at: http://www.swig.org/download.html . Being on Windows, I've opted for "swigwin".

get libregex (the ZIP file) from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=204414&package_id=306189
get libintl (three ZIP files) from: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libintl.htm . download "Binaries", "Dependencies", "Developer files"
follow "libintl" steps from: http://kayalang.org/download/compiling/windows

Comment out "alloc.h" in apophenia-0.22/vasprintf/vasnprintf.c
Modify Makefile, adding -lpthread to AM_CFLAGS (removing -pthread) and -lregex to AM_CFLAGS and LIBS

Now compile the main library:
```
make
```

Compile the Python interface:
```
make apop.py
```
should now run OK. Ignore warnings that 'print' is a python keyword....

Finally, put one more expected directory in place and install:
```
mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/Lib/site-packages"
make install
```

You will get the usual warning about library paths, and may have to take the specified action:

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Libraries have been installed in:
  /usr/local/lib

If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and
specify the full pathname of the library, or use the `-LLIBDIR'
flag during linking and do at least one of the following:
  - add LIBDIR to the `PATH' environment variable
    during execution
  - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
    during linking
  - use the `-LLIBDIR' linker flag

See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for
more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
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