After installing or extracting msys2 you should start msys2 by executing msys2_shell.cmd. (if you did not use an installer and this is first time running of msys2 after unpacking, then at this. Msys2 isn't one tool to rule them all, but tries to focus on what it's good at.
For more details see 'what is msys2?' which also compares msys2 to other software distributions and development environments like cygwin, wsl, chocolatey, scoop,. In the konsole window menu bar,. Msys2 provides it as a mingw package.
If you have any problems with the posix side of msys2 (e.g. Just the files in a self extracting archive (missing windows integration like shortcuts, uninstall entry,. The msys2 software distribution uses a port of pacman (known from arch linux) to manage (install, remove and update) binary packages and also to build those packages in the first place. It provides a native build environment, based on open source software, and makes you feel right at home when.
The mingw subsystems provide native windows programs and are. To use it with msys2, first install the appropriate package and create a new profile with the following steps. Msys2 consists of three subsystems and their corresponding package repositories, msys2, mingw32, and mingw64. Ssh, home directories, user accounts, native symlinks, signal handling,.), try to consult the cygwin documentation first,.
The differences among the environments are mainly environment variables, default.