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or just install msys2. Works just as well imo, and can more easily integrate other packages as well.
by erikb 9y ago
or just install msys2. Works just as well imo, and can more easily integrate other packages as well.
- philamonster 9y agoYes! OOTB package mgmt...
- w4yai 9y agoMSYS2 is highly underated, it works perfectly and I cannot work without it now.
- CamperBob2 9y agoSo it's basically a much-improved MinGW or binutils package, is that the idea?
- RayDonnelly 9y agoNo it's a completely open source, built from source (using gcc) software distribution for Windows. It uses pacman to install packages and comes with many hundreds of prebuilt ones.
- irishcoffee 9y agoIt felt like x-mas when I discovered msys. The package management blew my mind. Getting a qt kit set up took about 1 minute. Great wiki about set up and use here: https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki
- dangerbird2 9y agoMsys uses Arch Linux's package manager of all things
- erikb 9y agoYeah it's not such a mind-blower if you are experienced in using Linux, where this is just common, but it's still really nice to not miss this when working on Windows. However in the current version of MSYS2 (after an update a few months ago) they suddenly seem to mix the different linux-like distributions and for me it's really hard to choose which shell to use and which package to install for that shell.
- irishcoffee 9y agoYeah I should clarify, the fact that msys had built in package management was just the most pleasant surprise ever. I use windows when I have to, not by choice. :)