For what its worth I'm pretty sure that I am using the vanilla Mingw install, not the TDM one. My notes say that I started here:
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started
and in Msys versions are:
uname -A MINGW32_NT-5.1 MYPC 1.0.17(0.48/3/2) 2011-04-24 23:39 i686 Msys gcc --version gcc.exe (GCC) 4.6.2 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
No indication of "TDM" anything, and inkscape builds fine for me.
Also
/c/progs/mingw/var/log/mingw-get-log.txt
does not have the string "tdm" in it anywhere and all the downloads were from:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/
Is there some other way to tell if Mingw is the TDM one?
Remind me again why TDM is suggested?
Regards,
David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech