MSYS2 is a collection of tools and libraries providing you with an easy-to-use environment for building, installing and running native Windows software.
It consists of a command line terminal called mintty, bash, version control systems like git and subversion, tools like tar and awk and even build systems like autotools, all based on a modified version of Cygwin. MSYS2 provides up-to-date native builds for GCC, mingw-w64, CPython, CMake, Meson, OpenSSL, FFmpeg, Rust, Ruby, just to name a few.
To provide easy installation of packages and a way to keep them updated it features a package management system called Pacman, which should be familiar to Arch Linux users. Our package repository contains more than 1800 pre-built packages ready to install.
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User Reviews
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This project is all around an excellent way to use *nix command line software and tools on Windows. It feels like a simplified and less bloated version of Cygwin. It's faster than Cygwin, but lacks the same depth of emulation Cygwin offers. Processing a few hundred megabytes of text in the shell is many times faster than Cygwin, but there is no X11 support at all. The only flaw is the redundant and irritating package naming convention that was used. All packages are prefixed with their internal subsystem name (which is the same as the repository name...) and also their externa subsystem name. For example: mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-libgusb, instead of i686/mingw32/libgusb. This makes finding and installing packages extremely tedious compared the ArchLinux's native pacman.
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Works very good, I love pacman from Arch :)