MSYS2 / MSYS / MinGW
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This page is about:
- MSYS, MSYS is a collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and grep on Windows.
- MinGW, "Minimalist GNU for Windows". MinGW is a minimalist development environment for native Microsoft Windows applications.
- MSYS2, a Cygwin-derived software distro for Windows using Arch Linux's Pacman. MSYS2 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.
MSYS and MinGW are mostly inactive now. MSYS2 is the active alternative.
References
- MSYS2
- MSYS / MinGW