This means that when you compile things from MinGW you must ensure that you choose the win32 thread options or you'll likely have problems compiling. On Windows, win32 threads apparently run much faster than posix. Note here we're using win32 threads, NOT posix threads. (Windows will now feel very similar to Mac/Linux)ĭownload the latest installer and run it.You'll have a "MinTTY" shortcut to start a mintty terminal running a bash shell.MSYS will use your Windows Home directory as its own.MSYS (32-bit) will be installed to C:\msys.MinGW (64-bit) will be installed to C:\MinGW-W64.However I can't make Windows apps in cygwin, and now needing to do some prototyping for cross-platform Windows tools, I need MSYS instead of Cygwin.Īfter a few attempts at doing this, reading various blogs that all say to do it different ways, and not really knowing which pre-compiled code I can trust versus not trust, here is a methodology I'm happy with and generally feel is relatively safe to install. When I did transition to windows relatively recently for development, I used cygwin, which worked pretty well and was Unix-like enough for me to be OK with it. I use Windows for gaming but I've never really developed on it before, because why.
Update: I installed this on Windows 10, and updated the procedure based on experience since the original post. (This is a repost of something I did last year, I accidentally deleted it from Blogger).
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