Re: [Msys2-users] Location for MingW Directory

[Ray D. <min...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:45 PM, David A. Cobb <sup...@co...> wrote:
> When I "discovered" and installed MSYS2, I already had MingW and MingW64
> installed in C:/Ming...

These are incompatible with MSYS2, please ensure that they never get
found or used by MSYS2.
.
>
> The install gives me both C:/msys64/mingw32/ and C:/msys64/mingw64.
> My question is: can I move those mingw directories up into C:/,
> modifying /msys64/etc/fstab  so that msys2 will find them?

No, don't do that. You'll break your system in both subtle and
unsubtle ways, all of them horrible. Everything on MSYS2 must live
where the installer and pacman puts it. The only choice you get for
those things is for the root of everything.

Best regards,

Ray Donnelly.

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