MSYS2 VS Toybox (Linux command line utilities)

MSYS2 Reviews

Toybox (Linux command line utilities) Reviews

MSYS2 mentions (8)

• Trying to find the real MinGW

  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: 11 months ago

• Getting “QT with MinGW support”?

  Apart from what other people already said, http://msys2.org/ is another easy-to-setup option. Source: over 1 year ago

• I Hate Windows!

  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

• std::cout << "It's a pain";

  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

• Installing MinGW W64 with FFMPEG on Windows and fixing the weird "file downloaded incorrectly" error.

  Download the latest msys2 installer from http://msys2.org/ and run it. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

Toybox (Linux command line utilities) mentions (4)

• Linux Distributions State of Gaming - Presentation just done at the FOSDEM 2023

  Toybox, Clang/LLVM, Musl, is an obvious distro core made up of permissively-licensed components. (Busybox, as used in many distros like Alpine, is GPLv2.). Source: about 1 year ago

• Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

  > Toybox's main goal is to make Android self-hosting by improving Android's command line utilities so it can build an installable Android Open Source Project image entirely from source under a stock Android system. -- http://landley.net/toybox/about.html. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

  README doesn't explain what it is beyond "all-in-one Linux command line". Here's the about page: http://landley.net/toybox/about.html (including comparison to busybox). And here's the list of commands currently supported: http://landley.net/toybox/status.html. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?

  For #1, you can just put #!/bin/bash at the top of the file to use Bash. Bash is still available, it’s just not the default for scripts that specify #!/bin/sh. #2 is still currently tricky, but Rob Landley (former Busybox maintainer) is working on a full bug-for-bug compatible Bash clone called toysh which will be included in an upcoming release of Toybox[1]. Once that’s released, I’m looking forward to... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago