I have an MSYS installation on my Windows machine.
Inside the root folder, there are two executables:
- msys2.exe
- mingw64.exe
(There is also a mingw32.exe but that is just the 32-bit version of mingw64, I believe).
Both executables launch a terminal window, that seem identical to me, apart from the fact that $PATH reports slight differences.
What is the difference between these two, and what is the purpose of each?
msys-runtime, which is aPOSIX 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.