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Package scripts for Cygwin targets to build under MSYS2.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2014-04-04 · latest 2026-02-15

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  1. …individuals. [1] "Cygwin POSIX emulation engine", https://packages.msys2.org/base/msys2-runtime [2] https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/tree/master/msys2-ru...
    comment by okanat · 2026-02-15 · in I fixed Windows native development
  2. …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, and Nixpkgs is very good at…
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2025-11-24 · in A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2
  3. …obvious reasons. Latest issue I encountered was that GNU parallel simple does not work. [1] [1]: https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/3289
    comment by w4rh4wk5 · 2022-11-16 · in Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released
  4. …were not working because the compiler had misalignment-related bugs. (The issue is still open in https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/1209 ) MinGW/MSYS certainly had appeal to former Linux devs who didn't want to touch the…
    comment by cyber_kinetist · 2021-12-19 · in Zig: Drop MinGW-w64
  5. …event, which can be useful for diagnosing the otherwise black box that is Windows. Eg [1] [1]: https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/138#issuecomm...
    comment by Arnavion · 2021-05-06 · in ProcMon for Linux (Preview)
  6. …not as transparent) but instead about msys2, the spiritual successor to cygwin. See for yourself: https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/blob/master/coreut... is the `pacman` style `PKGBUILD` used to build the `coreutils` package.
    comment by frutiger · 2016-03-22 · in Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
  7. …follow the Cygwin packaging versions or schedules at all. They are built from the recipes at: https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages .. they link to msys-2.0.dll which is Cygwin derived and are thus GPLed and exist to provide a POSIX-y…
    comment by RayDonnelly · 2016-03-03 · in MSYS2: Arch Linux on Microsoft Windows
  8. …file a pull request against it. Here's the link to the msys2-packages repo for Vim, for example: https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/tree/master/vim Same build system and everything, it just requires some finagling and copying of the…
    comment by striking · 2016-03-03 · in MSYS2: Arch Linux on Microsoft Windows
  9. …but I find its package management 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
  10. …to make these packages. The set of software-building recipes (PKGBUILDs) for MSYS2 itself are at: https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages .. and those for MinGW-w64 (i.e. native Windows software) are at:…
    comment by RayDonnelly · 2014-04-04 · in Windows Management Framework V5 Preview