[Msys2-users] building msys2 static lib?

[Jon <jon...@gm...>]

I'd like to build a 32-bit static lib for msys2 rather than the
msys-2.0.dll from source at

git://git.code.sf.net/p/msys2/code

for use with my msys2 install on Win8.1 64-bit. The static lib must be
usable from the msys2 `mingw-w64-i686-gcc 4.9.0-4` package.

My next step is to build patch.exe from the msys2 source and static link it
to msys2 and libgcc so there are no runtime dependencies on `msys-2.0.dll`
(115 symbols imported by patch.exe) or `msys-gcc_s-1.dll` (4 symbols
imported by patch.exe). I'm hoping the build results in a patch.exe with
runtime deps of only kernel32.dll and potentially msvcrt.dll.

Is this possible with the current code in the msys2 repo? If yes, what is
the best way to get started?

I'd like to be able to build the static libs on my Win8.1 box under msys2,
but I'm perfectly fine if I need to cross-build from either Arch or Ubuntu
Server. I only have 64-bit installs of those distros.