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setup-msys2

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GitHub Action to setup MSYS2

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2022-01-24 20:02:07 UTC to 2024-08-24 04:32:26 UTC.

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What Hacker News says

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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
In Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux
michaelsbradley·Feb 5, 2022
Git Bash is a nice tool. I used it for some time, and still do in some circumstances. But when I wanted to have more and do more from the command-line re: a *nix-like dev experience on Windows for building native Windows software, I found my way to MSYS2[1]. Note that Git Bash is in parts based on MSYS2, but installing and using MSYS2 is not 1-1 with installing and using Git Bash: At first I didn't quite understand what I was working with, but MSYS2's website provides the needed info, I just had to take the time to read it. The History[2] page helped me understand better the relationships and differences between MSYS2, MSYS (not "2"), MinGW/-w64, and Cygwin. One of the more salient points being: MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows soft
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ware ... MSYS2 is ideologically a successor to MSYS and MinGW. MSYS -- although definitely useful -- is really old and getting in the way of developers. MSYS2 was created to replace the original MSYS while avoiding its problems. Other pages provide complementary information on that same topic. Another thing I appreciated was the explanation of MSYS2's environments[3]. Being able to painlessly switch away from MSVCRT to UCRT was helpful in solving some UTF-8 difficulties I was experiencing. Package management with pacman[4] is rather pleasant, and the setup-msys2[5] GitHub Action makes it simple to provide your GHA workflow with the tools and libs you want. Whenever I've encountered a problem or had a question I couldn't answer via web search, the community on the MSYS2 Discord server[6] has always been quick and happy to help. [1] https://www.msys2.org/ [2] https://www.msys2.org/wiki/History/ [3] https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments/ [4] https://www.msys2.org/docs/package-management/ [&] https://packages.msys2.org/queue [5] https://github.com/msys2/setup-msys2 [6] https://www.msys2.org/contact/
In Getting Started with Git Bash
nyanpasu64·Jan 24, 2022
> Actions reduce workflow steps by providing reusabe[sic] “code” for common tasks. To run an action, you include the uses keyword pointing to a GitHub repo with the pattern {owner}/{repo}@{ref} or {owner}/{repo}/{path}@{ref} if it’s in a subdirectory. A ref can be a branch, tag, or SHA. Aside from the typo, I wonder how many packages could be backdoored at once, if an action maintainer went rogue, seeing as there's no pinning for actions by default, and (according to https://github.com/msys2/setup-msys2/blob/main/HACKING.md) moving a tag is the default way to push updates to an action. (Interestingly get-cmake/run-cmake/run-vcpkg are all operated by the same person.)
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