MSYS2

    A Cygwin-derived software distro for Windows using Arch Linux's Pacman

    • Free • Open Source
    • Windows
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    What is MSYS2?

    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.

    The name is a contraction of Minimal SYStem 2, and aims to provide support to facilitate using the bash shell, Autotools, revision control systems and the like for building native Windows applications using MinGW-w64 toolchains.

    We wanted a package management system to provide easy installation of packages, and ported Arch Linux's Pacman. This brings many powerful features such as dependency resolution and simple complete system upgrades, as well as providing the build system - makepkg{,-mingw} - which is used to make these packages. The set of software-building recipes (PKGBUILD and patches) for MSYS2 itself are at:

    https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages

    and those for MinGW-w64 (native Windows software) are at:

    https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages

    Both 32 and 64-bit are supported.
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    for me until now it is the fastest way to get any library for the compiler. Easy to use and the community is large

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    Forked from Cygwin with a nice package manager
    Positive comment • over 4 years ago • as an alternative to   Cygwin

    It's fundamentally the same thing
    Positive comment • about 2 years ago • as an alternative to   Cygwin

    Provides linux terminal tools on windows.
    Positive comment • 8 months ago • as an alternative to  
     gow

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    • mingw32
    • cygwin
    • mingw64
    • arch-linux

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