I installed MSYS2 under Windows 7. I want to build an open source project which requires readline. I installed readline with
pacman -S libreadline
But when I want to configure, it stops with error stating that it can't find readline.
configure: error: --with-readline was given, but test for readline failed
Also when I run from bash
readline -v
It says 'bash: readline: command not found'.
I did same under mingw64 shell, first installing packages with mingw-w64-x86_64 prefix, including package mingw-w64-x86_64-readline.
Here outputs are the same.
I was able to configure same source with Cygwin readline package (though I failed to make later).
Why does MSYS2 shell can't find readline command? Can you help me overcoming this problem?
readline isn't a command so you can't readline -v to see anything useful.
You probably installed the library but not the header files.
See if there is a -dev or -devel version of the package also.