MSYS2 MSYS2 is a collection of tools and libraries providing you with an easy-to-use environment for building, installing and running native Windows software It consists of a command line terminal called mintty, bash, version control systems like git and subversion, tools like tar and awk and even build systems like autotools, all based on a
MSYS2 Installer - MSYS2 MSYS2 Installer The MSYS2 installer can be used to set up an initial MSYS2 environment For further updating pacman is used See the updating guide for more information The installer comes in four variants: msys2-x86_64- exe: The GUI installer (see screenshot above) msys2-base-x86_64-* sfx exe: Just the files in a self extracting archive (missing Windows integration like shortcuts, uninstall
MSYS2-Introduction The msys2 subsystem provides an emulated mostly-POSIX-compliant environment for building software, package management, and shell scripting These programs live in a virtual single-root filesystem (the root is the MSYS2 installation directory)
MSYS2 - Environments The differences between the environments is mainly between environment variables, default compilers linkers, architecture, system libraries used etc
MSYS2 - What is MSYS2? MSYS2 allows you to build native Windows programs, while with WSL you can only cross compile them which makes things more complicated If you are just looking for Linux CLI tools, or want to build software that ends up on a Linux server anyway then WSL is the better choice
Welcome to the MSYS2 wiki Welcome to the MSYS2 wiki Welcome to the MSYS2 wiki Introduction - overview and important information History - about the project's inception and origins Re-installing from scratch - in case of unrecoverable problems Creating packages - how packages are built and how to make new ones MSYS2 vs Cygwin - differences and similarities
MSYS2 - Updating MSYS2 Updating MSYS2 After you have installed MSYS2 via the installer or other means, you need to continue updating it with the built-in pacman tool MSYS2 is a rolling release distribution and only supports full system upgrades, which means there are frequent minor and major updates to various packages and you can only update all packages at once
MSYS2 - Package Management The MSYS2 software distribution uses a port of `pacman` (known from Arch Linux) to manage (install, remove and update) binary packages and also to build those packages in the first place
MSYS2 - C C++ You can link in CRT_noglob o or CRT_glob o to disable or enable wildcard expansion, respectively This will error out if _dowildcard is already set in the source
MSYS2 - Package Mirrors MSYS2 uses multiple mirror servers around the world to distribute packages By default, when you install or update packages, pacman automatically selects the best available mirror to download from