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— forked from lux01/MSYS2 MinGW-W64 Setup.txt
Simple guide to set-up a MinGW-w64 environment on Windows using MSYS2
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| Part 1: Installing MSYS2/MinGW-W64 | |
| Windows is a piece of shit so to make the projects and code interoperable between Windows and Linux | |
| development environments we need to setup a Linux compatible build environment on Windows. | |
| 1. Go to http://msys2.github.io/ | |
| 2. Follow instructions 1 - 6 on the page. Make sure you remember where you installed this! | |
| NB: For instruction 6 it asks you to close MSYS2, do this by pressing the X button, not | |
| by typing exit (which is how you would normally do it). | |
| 3. Type the following command into the MSYS2 shell: |