MSYS is described as 'Collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and grep to allow building of applications and programs which depend on traditionally UNIX tools to be present' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are five alternatives to MSYS for Windows, Linux and BSD. The best MSYS alternative is Cygwin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MSYS are MinGW, MSYS2, MinC and MinGW-w64.
Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment.
Cygwin is the most popular Windows alternative to MSYS.
Cygwin is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to MSYS.
MinGW ("Minimalistic GNU for Windows") is a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and GNU Binutils. It provides a complete Open Source programming toolset which is suitable for the development of native MS-Windows (x86) applications, which do not depend on any...
MinGW is the most popular Linux alternative to MSYS.
MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software.
MinC has a tiny kernel emulation (285Kb) which runs on Windows. The rest of the software was taken verbatim from OpenBSD, version 6.1. This means that by installing MinC, you run OpenBSD on your Windows machine at native speed.
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