Familiarizing with Pacman
After properly installing MSYS2
you'll be able to use pacman in order to complete your installation.
Pacman is a package manager similar to Red Hat's yum and Debian's apt-get, and will make really easy the task to prepare a complete build environment.
Pacman is a package manager similar to Red Hat's yum and Debian's apt-get, and will make really easy the task to prepare a complete build environment.
- Start an MSYS2 shell.
Just click the icon of one between msys2.exe, mingw32i.exe or mingw64.exe you'll find into the C:\dev\msys64 folder (the one or the other is not relevant in this context). - Then execute the
following commands from the shell:
- pacman -S
--needed base-devel
This will install make, pkg-config and many others useful tools. - pacman -S
--needed mingw-w64-i686-toolchain
This will install the 32-bit compiler. - pacman -S
--needed mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
This will install the64-bit compiler. - pacman -S
--needed mingw-w64-i686-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake
This will install CMake for both 32 and 64 bits. - all right: you've now
completed your MinGW64 + MSYS2 installation, and you are ready to start
building your Windows binary executables.
Note: may well be you'll discover before or after that some tool
is still missing. You can easily install it when required.
Example: the well-known vim text editor is still missing; you can easily install it by executing: pacman -S vim
Hint: you can easily check all packages declaring a matching name and if they are already installed or not by executing: pacman -Ss package-name:
Example: the well-known vim text editor is still missing; you can easily install it by executing: pacman -S vim
Hint: you can easily check all packages declaring a matching name and if they are already installed or not by executing: pacman -Ss package-name:
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