[mythtv] Ticket #4270: MythTV on Windows (with MinGW)

[Jay Modi]

I can not get the instructions from the HOWTO on the wiki to work for me. I
have simplified what I am doing to try to get to the root cause of the
issue.
1. Download MINGW and select full install. Install DIR = D:\MinGW
2. Download MSYS and install to D:\msys\1.0\
3. Download updated bash and zlib. Extract into D:\msys\1.0
4. Install tortoise svn
5. Checkout mythtv from svn
6. Download freetype and compile with ./configure --prefix=/usr && make &&
make install
7. Go to the mythtv directory and run

 ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-dbox2 --disable-hdhomerun \
 --disable-dvb --disable-ivtv --disable-iptv --disable-joystick-menu \
 --disable-xvmc-vld --disable-x11 --disable-xvmc --enable-directx \
 --enable-memalign-hack --cpu=k8 --compile-type=debug

When I first run this I get an error like "pr: command not found", so I
download coreutils from the msys page and get pr.exe from there and place it
in D:\msys\1.0\bin. I rerun the same command and then I get this error:

ERROR! You must have FreeType installed to compile MythTV.
If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
version from SVN.  If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
mythtv-dev at mythtv.org mailing list or IRC #mythtv on irc.freenode.net
Include the log file "config.err" produced by configure as this will help
solving the problem

My libs are in D:\msys\1.0\bin and the include files are in
D:\msys\1.0\include. I have tried moving them to the D:\MinGW directory but
that has not worked.

I have tried going through all of the steps in the Wiki but always come out
with this error.
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