Top "Msys" questions

MSYS is a collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and grep for Microsoft Windows, supporting UNIX shell scripting, and building of applications and programs which depend on the availability of traditional UNIX tools.

Where can I set path to make.exe on Windows?

When I try run make from cmd-console on Windows, it runs Turbo Delphi's make.exe but I need MSYS's make.…

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How to install MinGW-w64 and MSYS2?

I am trying to build some open source library. I need package management system to easily download the dependencies. At …

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Sockets in MinGW

I was just trying to build netcat in MSYS using MinGW and realized that MinGW never really ported all of …

c++ mingw sockets msys
Browsing Folders in MSYS

This will be the toughest question of the day. How do I navigate through my Windows folder structure within the …

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Git Bash Shell fails to create symbolic links

When I try to create a symbolic link from the Git Bash shell, it fails every time all the time: $ …

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Package management in git for windows?

I'm reading the github wiki for git-for-windows and it says that msys2 bundles pacman: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/…

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How are msys, msys2, and msysgit related to each other?

I've been searching around, but I can't find a thorough description of what's going on with these 3 versions of MSYS. (…

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Eclipse CDT plugin problems

im trying to run a c program on my windows 7 computer using eclipse and im running into a little snag. …

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How to build OpenSSL with MinGW in Windows?

I want to build OpenSSL in Windows with MinGW, How can I do that? Please help me. Thanks.

c++ openssl mingw msys
Windows PATH to posix path conversion in bash

How can I convert a Windows dir path (say c:/libs/Qt-static) to the correct POSIX dir path (/c/libs/…

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