MSYS2 Software Distribution and Building Platform for Windows MSYS2 is a collection of tools and libraries providing you with an easy-to-use environment for building, installing and running native …

If your MSYS2 is unable to start after an upgrade, it's possible you just have some lingering MSYS2 processes (loaded with an older version of the runtime) that are conflicting with the processes you're …

MSYS2 is software distribution and a building platform for Windows. It provides a Unix-like environment, a command-line interface and a software repository making it easier to install, use, build and port …

The installer provides some additional features such as installing shortcuts, registering an uninstaller, a GUI for selecting the installation path and automatically running a login shell at the end to initialize …

MSYS2 isn't "one tool to rule them all", but tries to focus on what it's good at. It provides a native build environment, based on open source software, and makes you feel right at home when you are …

There is also an excellent introduction from Matthieu Vachon describing MSYS2, the shells, pacman and other stuff in a less technical, more practical way. Some pages on Git for Windows' home page are …

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.

The new Windows Terminal application, which by default supports cmd, powershell and WSL can also be extended to support a MSYS2 shell. Get it via the Windows app store if you don't have it installed …

MSYS2 comes with different environments and the first thing you have to decide is which one to use. The differences among the environments are mainly environment variables, default compilers/linkers, …

This can to be overridden on a per .exe basis by the user. Wildcard expansion is disabled by default in MSYS2. Changelog Starting with 2024-11-03 we have changed mingw-w64 to to disable wildcard …