Based on our record, MSYS2 should be more popular than MSYS. It has been mentiond 8 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Hi, I have been learning C++ recently using Visual Studio and Replit and wanted to switch to using a compiler with the windows command prompt. When I search up how to install MinGW there are multiple tutorials of indian people and other people who use totally different links and download pages in each video and I'm not sure which one to trust. Is msys2.org the correct website or is sourceforge or a different... Source: 12 months ago
Apart from what other people already said, http://msys2.org/ is another easy-to-setup option. Source: over 1 year ago
Also FYI: there’s a project called MSYS2 which derives from Cygwin and seeks to provide a proper set of Unix tools on Windows, including split: https://packages.msys2.org/package/coreutils. Source: over 1 year ago
Still, it isn't a compiler. You also need to install the Visual Studio build tools, or GCC and/or Clang through MSYS2. Source: over 1 year ago
Download the latest msys2 installer from http://msys2.org/ and run it. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago
It was possible long before .NET5 to compile c/++ applications on Linux for win32 with MinGW. Source: over 2 years ago
If you don't want to download source code and build the tools yourself, you need to get them from third parties like MinGW that create Windows distributions for these tools. Source: over 2 years ago
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