MSYS2
MSYS2 is a popular way to access a broad range of Linux-like tools from the Windows Command Prompt or PowerShell, at full computational performance. That is, MSYS2 executables will usually run significantly faster than Cygwin or WSL.
We refer to MSYS2 packages with
environment
prefix mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64- for the
UCRT
toolchain, which is the recommended toolchain for Windows development on x86_64.
For example, the GCC compiler package on x86_64 is mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc.
For
ARM64
MSYS2 users, the package environment prefix is mingw-w64-clang-aarch64-.
2025
- 2025-01-29 – Pacman check space disable
2024
- 2024-06-20 – Install MSYS2 on Windows
- 2024-06-08 – Clang MSYS2 environment
2023
- 2023-09-02 – CMake include-what-you-use (IWYU)
2021
- 2021-11-30 – Conda mingw-w64 path conflicts
- 2021-10-21 – GitHub Actions Windows MSYS2 MS-MPI
- 2021-10-21 – GitHub Actions MSYS2 Windows path
- 2021-05-17 – Fortran MPI on Windows
2020
- 2020-12-07 – GitHub Actions MSYS2 with Python
- 2020-09-20 – Detect MSYS2 from Python
- 2020-08-04 – MINGWROOT environment variable
- 2020-06-04 – Boost install on Windows
- 2020-01-30 – Run Matlab code from Python with oct2py