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MINGW-packages
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msys2 / MINGW-packages

MINGW-packages

Package scripts for MinGW-w64 targets to build under MSYS2.

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What it is

Package scripts for MinGW-w64 targets to build under MSYS2.

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-10-14 17:10:11 UTC to 2026-08-25 12:12:40 UTC.

0122015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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westurner·Aug 24, 2024
msys2/MINGW-packages: "[Wish] Add 3D library for Python" https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/21325 panda3d/panda3d: https://github.com/panda3d/panda3d Before Steam for Linux, there was tuxmath. tux4kuds/tuxmath//mingw/ has CodeBlocks build config with mingw32 fwics: https://github.com/tux4kids/tuxmath/blob/master/mingw/tuxmat... Code::Blocks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code::Blocks There's a CMake build: https://github.com/tux4kids/tuxmath/blob/master/CMakeLists.t... But it says the autotools build is still it; configure.ac for autoconf and Makefile.am for automake SDL supports SVG since SDL_image 2.0.2 with IMG_LoadSVG_RW() and since SDL_image 2.6.0 with IMG_LoadSizedSVG_RW: https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2_image/IMG_LoadSizedSVG_RW conda-forge has SDL on Win/Mac/Lin. conda-forge/sdl2-feedstock: https://github.com/conda-
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forge/sdl2-feedstock emscripten-forge does not yet have SDL or .*gl.* or tuxmath or bash or busybox: https://github.com/emscripten-forge/recipes/tree/main/recipe... conda-forge/panda3d-feedstock / recipe/meta.yaml builds panda3d on Win, Mac, Lin, and Github Actions containers: https://github.com/conda-forge/panda3d-feedstock/blob/main/r... : conda install -c conda-forge panda3d # mamba install panda3d # miniforge # pip install panda3d Panda3d docs > Distributing Panda3D Applications > Third-party dependencies lists a few libraries that I don't think are in the MSYS or conda-forge package repos: https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/distribution/thirdparty... What about math games on open source operating systems, Steam?
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westurner·Aug 24, 2024
Hey, TuxMath is written with SDL, though there's a separate JS port now IIUC. /? mingw: https://github.com/search?q=mingw&type=repositories The msys2/MINGW-packages are PKGBUILD packages: https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages : > Package scripts for MinGW-w64 targets to build under MSYS2. > [..., SDL, gles, glfw, egl, glbinding, cargo-c, gtest, cppunit, qt5, gtk4, icu, ki-i18n-qt5, SDL2_pango, jack2, gstreamer, ffmpeg, blender, gegl, gnome-text-editor, gtksourceview, kdiff3, libgit2, libusb, libressl, libsodium, libserialport, libslirp, hugo] PKGBUILD is a bash script packaging spec from Arch, which builds packages with makepkg. msys2/setup-msys2: https://github.com/msys2/setup-msys2: > setup-msys2 is a GitHub Action (GHA) to setup an MSYS2 environment (i.e. MSYS, MINGW32, MINGW64, UCRT64, CLANG32, CLANG64 and/or CLANGARM64 shells) Tho
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ugh, if you're writing a 3d app/game, e.g. panda3d already builds for Windows, Mac, and Linux; and pygbag compiles panda3d to WASM, and there's also harfang-wasm, and TIL about leptos is more like React in Rust and should work for GUI apps, too. panda3d > Building applications: https://docs.panda3d.org/1.11/python/distribution/building-b... https://github.com/topics/mingw : > nCine, win-sudo, drmingw debugger, mstorsjo/llvm-mingw: https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw : > Address Sanitizer and Undefined Behaviour Sanitizer, LLVM Control Flow Guard -mguard=cf ; i686, x86_64, armv7 and arm64
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