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.

How to install Python Development tools on MSYS2

I need to install the Python development tools on MSYS2. My Python installation works (by either calling python3.6 or python3: $ …

python python-3.x installation msys msys2
Invoking MSYS bash from Windows cmd

I'm using GCC on Windows 7 (using the TDM's build). I installed MSYS to be able to execute Make and compile …

c++ c gcc makefile msys
Is there any package management system for MinGW+MSYS?

I am trying to compile some open source libraries in MinGW+MSYS. During the configure phase, I kept seeing some 3…

gcc mingw apt-get package-managers msys
Git-windows case sensitive file names not handled properly

We have the git bare repository in unix that has files with same name that differs only in cases. Example: …

git msys
Building the latest iconv and libxml2 binaries in Win32

I'm trying to get MinGW and MSYS working so I can build iconv and libxml2 in Windows, but I'm finding ./…

c++ mingw libxml2 msys iconv
MSYS vs. MinGW: internal environment variables

MSYS2 default shell (bash) can be started choosing among three launchers, which also set the environment variable MSYSTEM. Specifically: msys2_…

mingw msys mingw-w64 msys2
Installing Pip on Msys

I have built a simple PyGTK app using Python 3.5.2 and Msys but I need some modules not in the default …

python python-3.x pip msys
Using msysGit from MinGW and vice versa

I am using git as my revision control system. To do so, I installed msysGit to checkout my repositories on …

git compilation mingw msysgit msys
cmake MSYS Makefiles generator missing

I have cmake 3.2.3 installed via pacman. I get an error when I try to use it from a msys64 shell: $ …

cmake msys
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

I am trying to Build and Install the Apache Thrift compiler and libraries I had to type this command is …

linux gcc gnu thrift msys