← Back to context Comment by w4yai 8 years ago MSYS2 is highly underated, it works perfectly and I cannot work without it now. 2 comments w4yai Reply CamperBob2 8 years ago So it's basically a much-improved MinGW or binutils package, is that the idea? RayDonnelly 8 years ago No it's a completely open source, built from source (using gcc) software distribution for Windows. It uses pacman to install packages and comes with many hundreds of prebuilt ones.
CamperBob2 8 years ago So it's basically a much-improved MinGW or binutils package, is that the idea? RayDonnelly 8 years ago No it's a completely open source, built from source (using gcc) software distribution for Windows. It uses pacman to install packages and comes with many hundreds of prebuilt ones.
RayDonnelly 8 years ago No it's a completely open source, built from source (using gcc) software distribution for Windows. It uses pacman to install packages and comes with many hundreds of prebuilt ones.
So it's basically a much-improved MinGW or binutils package, is that the idea?
No it's a completely open source, built from source (using gcc) software distribution for Windows. It uses pacman to install packages and comes with many hundreds of prebuilt ones.