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Revision as of 22:31, 31 January 2018
- See Also
- OS-Windows-POSIX
- OS-Windows
From the MSYS2 Home Page:
At its core is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software. It provides a bash shell, Autotools, revision control systems and the like for building native Windows applications using MinGW-w64 toolchains.
It features a package management system to provide easy installation of packages, Pacman. It brings many powerful features such as dependency resolution and simple complete system upgrades, as well as straight-forward package building.
Features
- Supports 32-bit and 64-bit Windows environments.
- Numerous shell-based environments/tools like:
- BASH
- Perl
- Python
- Has Windows-native version control tools like:
- Bazaar
- CVS
- Git
- Contains package management tools:
- pacman
Packages
Packages of local interest:
- bzr
- cvs
- make
- perl
- python
- vim
Installation
Base Install
Installation restrictions:
- MSYS2 no longer supports Windows XP.
- MSYS2 does not install on FAT* partitions.
To perform a base installation:
- Download the "x86_64" installer for 64-bit Windows systems.
- The "i686" installer is optimal only for 32-bit Windows systems.
- Run the selected downloaded msys2-x86_64-CCYYMMDD.exe installer (i.e. msys2-x86_64-20161025.exe)
- Interact with the installer:
- MSYS2 64bit Setup
- Welcome to the MSYS2 64bit Setup Wizard
[ Next ]- Installation Folder
- C:\msys64
[ Next ]- Start Menu shortcuts
- MSYS2 64bit
[ Next ]- Installing MSYS2 64bit
- ...
- Completing the MSYS2 64bit Wizard.
[✓]Run MSYS2 64bit now.[ Finish ]Base Update
To update the base install:
- Continue installation in an MSYS2 shell:
- M ~
- user@hostname MSYS ~
- pacman -Syu
- Update the package database and core system packages.
- pacman -Syu
- Update the package database and core system packages.
- Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
- Y
- warning: terminate MSYS2 without returning to shell and check for updates again
- warning: for example close your terminal window instead of calling exit
- Kill the shell session.
- ˂Ctrl-Alt-Del˃
Task Manager
- Task Manager
(˅)More details
- Name
- Find a process with a garbage name, or pacman.exe:
- Right-click the selected process.
- Click End Task.
[X]- Continue installation in an MSYS2 shell:
- Click
[ Start ]
MSYS2 64bit (˅)
MSYS2 MSYS
- M ~
- user@hostname MSYS ~
- pacman -Su
- Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
- Y
Post Install
Run a script to modify the base install to add to or update it per local standard practice.
- M ~
- user@hostname MSYS ~
- /path/to/MSYS2PostInstallSetup.sh
The script does not update user files if they were previously modified by the script.
It may be advantageous to modify the script use patch to edit files as this may allow updates via multiple patch files.
