Re: [Msys2-users] Need cmake in /usr/bin

[Óscar F. <of...@wa...>]

Mirko Vukovic <mir...@gm...>
writes:

> I opened msys2 console and did
> pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-cmakeq
>
> I thought that msys2 console is for package installation, and mingw64 gives
> a
> build environment for 64-bit applications.

AFAIK cmake does not depend on the GCC toolchain, so you need to install
it explicitly:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc

> Frankly, I am confused with the the two consoles msys2 and mingw64.   I did
> not find
> an explanation of what is one used for and what the other.

The mingw64 "console" is just the same as the msys2 console but with the
mingw64 `bin' directory at the front of the PATH, so the mingw64
binaries are found first. It also sets some enviroment variables
(MSYSTEM, for instance) but that's basically it.