title: Getting mingw-get to install correctly - mingw/msys path missing plus more!
body: <p>I'm running windows XP.</p>
  
  <p>I have been following <a href="http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started" rel="noreferrer">this tutorial</a> and so downloading mingw-get-inst <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/mingw-get-inst" rel="noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I've done this a couple times and the last time I checked boes to install EVERYTHING including, but not limited to, gcc, g++, MSYS and the MinGW Compiling Suite.  I told it to make a program menu shortcut, too.</p>
  
  <p>I believe I have correctly added MinGW/bin to the Environment Settings' <em>Path</em>.</p>
  
  <p>So I have the shortcut to the MSYS shell now.  It goes to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat, but the whole msys directory does not exist!</p>
  
  <p>There are tons of "packages" have been downloaded as far as I can tell ("mingw-get show" brings up a lot!), but it doesn't seem like any of it installed correctly.</p>
  
  <p>Also, should I be able to use commands like "g++ foo.cpp -o foo.exe" from cmd.exe or only from the MSYS shell?  Because I was unable to use cmd.exe.</p>
  
  <p>Please help!</p>