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Package scripts for MinGW-w64 targets to build under MSYS2.

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2015-10-14 · latest 2026-08-25

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  1. …the bare metal variant, the Windows executable is full of zeros. This is a well known bug (see https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/18612 for example) which also affects my projects: https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/skandi The Linux CLI…
    comment by skrellm · 2026-08-25 · in Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines
  2. …all cross (MinGW, Cygwin/MSYS2, MSVC ABI with LLVM, MSVC with Wine) - Be Cygwin packages - Be https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages / https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages - Be VCPKG All these things have slightly different trade-offs,…
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2025-11-24 · in A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2
  3. …a 100% overhead compared to running the same program under WSL using a linux-native GCC). c.f. https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/discussions/13259
    comment by legobmw99 · 2025-02-18 · in 0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance
  4. msys2/MINGW-packages: "[Wish] Add 3D library for Python" https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/21325 panda3d/panda3d: https://github.com/panda3d/panda3d Before Steam for Linux, there was tuxmath. tux4kuds/tuxmath//mingw/ has…
    comment by westurner · 2024-08-24 · in Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux
  5. …https://github.com/search?q=mingw&type=repositories The msys2/MINGW-packages are PKGBUILD packages: https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages : > Package scripts for MinGW-w64 targets to build under MSYS2. > [..., SDL, gles, glfw, egl,…
    comment by westurner · 2024-08-24 · in Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux
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    Epic thread on getting the Ada compiler bootstrapped in UCRT64 MSys2 (2021)
    story by phaedrus · 2023-02-09 · 0 comments
  7. …better than Cygwin's. Quite a few packages are supported https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages
    comment by srean · 2015-10-14 · in Babun: a Windows shell