Timeline for Difference between msys2.exe and mingw64.exe in MSYS installation
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| May 12, 2021 at 12:04 | comment | added | Tom Yan |
IIRC, packages in the msys2 repo relies on msys-runtime, which is a POSIX emulation engine (a bit like a libc but in the form of a translation layer, I think) forked from Cygwin, to work, while MINGW packages are more or less compiled as native Windows programs / libraries.
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| May 12, 2021 at 10:00 | history | asked | mydoghasworms | CC BY-SA 4.0 |