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MinGW is a set of GNU compiler tools, header files, and import libraries that allow you to compile Windows applications. MSYS is an environment for MinGW that allows you to run configure — a script used by Jikes and many other open source projects that use the GNU autotools configuration system. For more details about both MinGW and MSYS see the website www.mingw.org.
