I recently installed MinGW from MSYS2, and tested the program below: #include<iostream> using namespace std; int main() { cout << "Hello World"; return 0 ; } But I get a...

When using MinGW, it's easy to run into a DLL hell, i.e. your program not running because it either doesn't find the required DLLs or finds incompatible versions of them. This can manifest itself a...

Is it possible to install MSYS2 on Windows 7 Home Edition?

I want to detect if the CMakeLists.txt is being summoned inside an MSYS2 environment/shell: $ uname MSYS_NT-10.0-18363 from here I have tried: cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10) project(test...

Is there a way to change the root (/) directory of git bash on windows. By default it is set to the installation folder. Setting it to c:\ instead would save needing to type the drive letter e.g. ...

After compiling an application in the mingw-w64 64-bit Shell, it runs fine inside the shell, but gives an error the application was unable to start correctly (0xc00007b) when run normally, outside ...

Issue Some main commands not found in MSYS2 after update-core. Environment Windows 8.1 64bit msys2-x86_64-20150916 Detail I introduced MSYS2 to my computer and performed update-core. However...

Using MSYS2 64-bit version 20161025 on Windows 10... I'm unable to get msys2 to recognize programs in the windows path. For example, after installing Go version 1.8.3 using the windows the install...

I am not even sure I am asking the right question. Let me explain my situation: This is about Git on Windows 7. My company sets up the Windows user directory on a network drive, not on the l...

I have installed MinGW-w64 and MSYS2. But how do I change the HOME directory in MSYS2? So that when I type cd $home or cd ~ it goes to another directory that I defined. And how do I write a code s...

This is a continuation of trying to compile a license-free GPL version of the Microchip XC32 microcontroller g++ XC32 v4.35 cross-compiler from source. See my Q&A here, and my repo here: https:...

I am unable to figure this out. I am trying to build the Microchip XC32 PIC32 microcontroller GCC cross-compiler. To try it yourself (this is how I got to my error I'm stuck on): On Windows 10 or ...

I'm learning Arabic and I'd like to use Vim for taking notes. I tried a few different setups on Windows 10 and so far the closest to a good setup seems to be vim in MSYS2. MSYS2 renders Arabic text...

I've recently updated all msys2 packages and now I can't build my project. The error occurs at the moment of linking one of .dlls - target_library.dll. The error message isn't clear to me. What do...

I'm new to tmux and have been trying to get a .tmux.conf that suits me and build a script to setup a session. At some point I started getting this error no server running on /tmp/tmux-1065767/def...

I tried to integrate MSYS2 shell into Visual studio Code integrated terminal. Here's my user settings: { "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\msys64\\usr\\bin\\bash.exe", "terminal.integrat...

Ever since June 2020, I have been unable to update my packages with pacman -Syu. When I try, I get the following error: (It gets up to "Checking package integrity", then shows errors like...

This question is about the CMake Tools extension for VS Code. The operation system is Windows 10. The extension correctly found GCC, which I can verify by having a look at the %LocalAppData%/CMakeT...

I have been using Git for Windows on my Windows 10 box. I use bash and other command line tools that come with it. I need rsync, but found it doesn't come with this package. I googled and found a m...

I installed MSYS2-64bits on my Windows Server 2016 to support some Linux librairies, such as OpenSSL, which I need in my Ruby on Rails development. MSYS2 has been partially installed with Ruby 2.7,...

I'm trying to compile R devel by this advice: Build R with OpenBLAS I use MSYS2 (Rtools 4.3), but now have strange error: -------- Building ../../../bin/x64/Rblas.dll -------- gcc -s -shared -o ../...

MSYS2 is said to have different environments. What are they? How do I choose which one to use? What's the difference between MINGW64 and UCRT64? (This Q&A is intended as a canonical duplicate ...

The error The exact error is the title of the question. It happens when I use vectorName.push_back() function. I recreated it with just this simple code: #include <iostream> #include <vec...

I am having troubles when trying to upgrade my Portable Msys2 under Win 10 with pacman -Syuu, as detailed below. I did this before with no problem. What could the problem and solution be? $ pacma...

I have installed two Windows servers with the latest versions of Cygwin and Git, and I am trying to clone the git repository from S1 to S2. I can successfully ssh from S2 to S1 using RSA keys, but ...