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> Obviously Windows could also be supported by recompiling under Cygwin, or MSYS2 MSYS2 is a dream. You install it, specify your dependencies using Arch's pacm
by jancsika 6y ago
> Obviously Windows could also be supported by recompiling under Cygwin, or MSYS2
MSYS2 is a dream. You install it, specify your dependencies using Arch's pacman, and go to town. No fiddling with Windows configuration files or paths, it just works. In fact it has been easier to get new devs up and running in that environment than in Linux, where they tended to smear build-time dependencies across the bare metal install. Of course there are solutions for that, but those solutions are more of a pain to set up than MSYS2.
- 1996 6y agoI'd like to see an MSYS2 compiled with cosmopolitan
- alisonatwork 6y agoThe cool thing is that it wouldn't really be MSYS2. It would just be coreutils, or binutils. The dream is that a programmer can just write their tool, using standard ISO C, maybe some POSIX, then compile and link it to Cosmopolitan and they're done. No need to set up any special configs or ifdefs. No need for any platform specific distributions. You just compile once and now you have the canonical version.