MSYS2

Name: MSYS2
Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)

50 likes

MSYS2 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.

Cost / License

Free
Open Source

Application type

Terminal Emulator

Origin

International

Platforms

Windows

MSYS2 alternatives

50likes

26alternatives

0articles

Features

Properties

Lightweight

Features

Command line/bash
Linux on Windows
Command line interface
Package Manager
POSIX-compatible
Support for scripting
Compatibility Layer

MSYS2 News & Activities

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elmoteroloco rated MSYS2
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10 days ago
elmoteroloco liked MSYS2
10 days ago
sergewinters added MSYS2 as alternative to Voktty
24 days ago
vavoem added MSYS2 as alternative to Ctrl-V Terminal
3 months ago
jaisal added Compatibility Layer as a feature to MSYS2
4 months ago
jaisal added Lightweight as a feature to MSYS2
4 months ago
jaisal rated MSYS2
★★★★★
4 months ago
jaisal liked MSYS2
4 months ago
POX added MSYS2 as alternative to Chuchu and VVTerm + 2 similar activities
4 months ago
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Comments and Reviews

Top Positive Comment

AntumDeluge

★★★★★

Aug 19, 2022

EditedAug 20, 2022

It is a great free & open source environment providing a package manager with many command-line & GUI utilities. It also provides many packaged libraries for developing & building Windows applications. When compared to its origin counterparts on Unix/Posix systems, however, it is noticeably slower.

Nuncio Bitis

★★★★★

Jul 9, 2024

It's almost as good as Cygwin. Cygwin has more compatibility and support for Windows. With MSYS2, you have to install things on different environments and hope they work together. Not everything is available in all environments. For example:

numpy is not available for python at all
fftw3 is only supported on mingw environments

Huseyin Caliskan

★★★★★

Dec 15, 2020

for me until now it is the fastest way to get any library for the compiler. Easy to use and the community is large

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What is MSYS2?

MSYS2 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.

The name is a contraction of Minimal SYStem 2, and aims to provide support to facilitate using the bash shell, Autotools, revision control systems and the like for building native Windows applications using MinGW-w64 toolchains.

We wanted a package management system to provide easy installation of packages, and ported Arch Linux's Pacman. This brings many powerful features such as dependency resolution and simple complete system upgrades, as well as providing the build system - makepkg{,-mingw} - which is used to make these packages. The set of software-building recipes (PKGBUILD and patches) for MSYS2 itself are at:

https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages

and those for MinGW-w64 (native Windows software) are at:

https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages

Both 32 and 64-bit are supported.