MSYS2 Reviews

MSYS2 Description

MSYS2 is a collection tools and libraries that provide an easy-to use environment for building, installing, and running native Windows software. It includes a command-line terminal called mintty, bash and version control systems such as git and subversion. Tools like tar, awk, and even build systems such as autotools. All of these are based on modified Cygwin. MSYS2's core components are based on Cygwin. However, the main purpose of MSYS2 was to provide a build environment that native Windows software can use. The Cygwin-using parts of MSYS2 are kept to a minimum. MSYS2 provides the latest native builds for GCC and mingw–w64, CPython CMake, Meson OpenSSL, FFmpeg Rust, Ruby, and CMake. Pacman is a package management system that makes it easy to install packages and keeps them updated. This should be familiar to Arch Linux users.