• Third screen of MSYS2 installation. Now MSYS2 is ready for you and a terminal for the UCRT64 environment will launch.
  • So, with MSYS2 you can install MinGW packages in a Linux environment, which is best for those used to Linux and the pacman package manager.
  • The GUI installer no longer works on Windows 8.1. Use the installer from https://github.com/msys2/msys2-installer/releases/tag/2024-01-13 instead.
  • As of 0.11.2+, MINGW64 is the recommended flavor to use. For the following instructions, it assumed that MSYS2 is installed in C:\msys64.
  • You'll also find a folder called "MSYS2 32/64 bit" in your Start Menu, where you'll find the shortcut to launch your MSYS2 shell.
  • Mingw-w64 can be run natively on Microsoft Windows, cross-hosted on Linux (or other Unix), or "cross-native" on MSYS2 or Cygwin.
  • MSYS2 needs to be on a non-FAT / non-ExFAT drive capable of symbolic links such as NTFS. Start the MSYS2 console in the Windows Start menu.
  • MSYS2 is a collection of tools and libraries providing you with an easy-to-use environment for building, installing and running native Windows software.
  • The set of software-building recipes (PKGBUILD and patches) for MSYS2 itself are at: https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages.