MSYS2
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5recommend
3warn against
Nov 11, 2025first mention
Aug 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Or MSYS2, to go even further. https://www.msys2.org/”
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“And that download page is much smoother sailing:”
“I do appreciate it as a daily user of MSYS2.”
“the work the MSYS2 team put into their layered environments mechanism”
Caveats and dissent
“MinGW and MinGW-64/MSYS2 are just as inscrutable, fragile and new-user-hostile”
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“there is actually zero need for MSYS at all for this”
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All comments 12
“I used msys2 (and spammed Gemini with error messages) for building manually”
You're conflating MSYS2 with Mingw-w64. MSYS2 installation comes with multiple environments/ABIs and MSYS2 mode is actually a fork of Cygwin. They fork Cygwin, put some patches on and rename the DLL as msys-2.0.dll . Here is the sources for MSYS2 runtime that produces it: https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime . To run bash you need termios API, stty, fork, exec and signals (and some other POSIX-specific funtions). D
“MSYS2 packages will need to use whatever the NT kernel provides”
“Or MSYS2, to go even further. https://www.msys2.org/”
“MSYS2 is my favorite in this area.”
“Msys 2 would work great until it didn't”
“And that download page is much smoother sailing:”
“I do appreciate it as a daily user of MSYS2.”
“MinGW and MinGW-64/MSYS2 are just as inscrutable, fragile and new-user-hostile”
“there is actually zero need for MSYS at all for this”
“the work the MSYS2 team put into their layered environments mechanism”
“msys2/git bash”