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What is MSYS?

April 26, 2017msys

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What is MSYS?

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MSYS or Minimal SYStem is a POSIX and Bourne shell environment use with MinGW. It provides a hand picked set of tools to allow a typical configuration script with Bourne syntax to execute. This allows most of the GNU packages to create a Makefile just from executing the typical configure script which can then be used to build the package using the native MinGW version of GCC. The POSIX layer used by MSYS is a fork of the 1.3.3 version of Cygwin . Cygwin is a full POSIX layer and UNIX-like environment for Win32 providing both server and client utilites. For more MSYS-specific information, please see the MSYS section of this website. Back to index ʲô MSYS MSYS Minimal SYStem MinGW ʹõ POSIX Bourne űṩһЩߣǿе͵ Bourne дýű GNU ͨýű Makefile ļذ MinGW GCC Ա POSIX ȡ 1.3.