> > After you get through this hurdle you then have to install the right software, and MSYS2 makes the "genius" decision of letting me pick which binary I want

> > After you get through this hurdle you then have to install the right software, and MSYS2 makes the "genius" decision of letting me pick which binary I want to install for every single install. Do you need to install fmpeg? Better spend an hour sifting through clang-amd64-ucrt-mingw32-ffmpeg vs. gcc-x86_64-w32-gnu-ffmpeg and tons of packages. > Huh. Yeah, that does seem odd - is it a result of MSYS2 being oriented at devs who need compatible libraries? Yeah, we are oriented at devs that re-package our binaries and also want to be a development environment for upstreams, and also a testbed for toolchains. So we provide x86/x64/arm64, then ucrt/msvcrt, and llvm/gcc. I wouldn't blame anyone for finding this confusing. It's described here: https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments For ffmpeg, since it was mentioned as an example, this looks like: https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-ffmpeg https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-ffmpeg