At its core is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software. It provides a bash shell, Autotools, revision control systems and the like for building native Windows applications using MinGW-w64 toolchains.
Size: 197 MB
Authors: MSYS2
Default path: %HOMEDRIVE%\Programs\msys
pbox install msys
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<pbox version="1.0">
<name>msys</name>
<title>MSYS2</title>
<version>2.20181021</version>
<group>tools</group>
<archs>64</archs>
<zipFile arch="64">msys-2.20181021.zip</zipFile>
<homedir>%HOMEDRIVE%\Programs\msys</homedir>
<install>
<script>.\script\install.bat "${homedir}" "${zipFile}"</script>
<path>${homedir}\usr\bin</path>
<env>MSYS_HOME=${homedir}</env>
</install>
<uninstall>
<remove>${homedir}</remove>
<unpath>${homedir}\usr\bin</unpath>
<unenv>MSYS_HOME</unenv>
</uninstall>
</pbox>