To provide easy installation of packages and a way to keep them updated itįeatures a package management system called MSYS2 provides up-to-date native builds for GCC, mingw-w64,ĬPython, CMake, Meson, OpenSSL, FFmpeg, Rust, Ruby, just to name a few. These central parts being based on Cygwin, the main focus of MSYS2 is to provideĪ build environment for native Windows software and the Cygwin-using parts are Subversion, tools like tar and awk and even build systems like autotools, allīased on a modified version of Cygwin. Mintty, bash, version control systems like git and It consists of a command line terminal called

MSYS2 is a collection of tools and libraries providing you with anĮasy-to-use environment for building, installing and running native Windows MSYS2 Software Distribution and Building Platform for Windows