build-extra
Additional files and scripts to help build Git for Windows on MSYS2. (by git-for-windows)
msys2-installer
The one-click installer for MSYS2 (by msys2)
| build-extra | msys2-installer | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 6 | |
| 617 | 487 | |
| 1.0% | 3.7% | |
| 9.0 | 5.3 | |
| 9 days ago | 26 days ago | |
| Inno Setup | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
build-extra
Posts with mentions or reviews of build-extra.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-23.
- Git Branches: Intuition and Reality
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it's really sad that fish shell doesn't run on windows
Git for Windows SDK and run pacman
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unable to open vscode from git. Getting 'Permission Denied' error (Details in comments)
-Git For Windows SDK
msys2-installer
Posts with mentions or reviews of msys2-installer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-02.
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Can't seem to make MSYS2 GCC work at all
i finally found a fix! turns out the download from microsoft was simply totally outdated. all I did was use this one from the MSYS2 site directly and just used every command in the ucrt terminal. hope this helps!
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is this safe?
so i just performed a clean install on my device and wanted to bring back some of the apps i owned, and as for c++ compliler, is this https://github.com/msys2/msys2-installer/releases/download/2022-01-18/msys2-x86_64-20220118.exe safe to use? it's been taken from this : https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/config-mingw website do you think that the instruction on the vs code website code lead to sth malicious?
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Error faced when Installing Haskell using GHcup
Yeah, make sure your curl.exe is functional, e.g. by trying to run curl.exe -L -O https://github.com/msys2/msys2-installer/releases/download/2022-03-19/msys2-x86_64-20220319.exe.
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MinGW-w64, outdated binaries
https://github.com/msys2/msys2-installer/releases (grab the .sfx.exe is probably the easiest, since self extracting but no registry modification).
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Configuring c/c++ on windows for VS Code.
Download the installer: msys2-x86_64-20211130.exe
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unable to open vscode from git. Getting 'Permission Denied' error (Details in comments)
MSys
What are some alternatives?
When comparing build-extra and msys2-installer you can also consider the following projects:
example
mingw-builds-binaries - MinGW-W64 compiler binaries
gittuf - A security layer for Git repositories
mingw-builds - Scripts for building the 32 and 64-bit MinGW-W64 compilers for Windows
GitExtensions - Git Extensions is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019).
Quakespasm - Extra bloaty junk to modernise stuff a bit.
mingw-distro - MinGW distro build scripts.