mingw-builds
Scripts for building the 32 and 64-bit MinGW-W64 compilers for Windows (by niXman)
msys2-installer
The one-click installer for MSYS2 (by msys2)
| mingw-builds | msys2-installer | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 6 | |
| 259 | 481 | |
| - | 2.5% | |
| 6.6 | 5.3 | |
| about 2 months ago | 22 days ago | |
| Shell | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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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.
mingw-builds
Posts with mentions or reviews of mingw-builds.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-19.
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Security question about installing MinGW-w64
IMHO with niXman you can go through the entire integration code and even setup a workflow yourself to build the binaries. There are a lot of scripts to check in https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds but still manageable. No idea how the SF binaries are built. It'd probably roll with niXman. For now I use the Linux cross-compiler.
- Trying to build something
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Personal builds of mingw-w64
But, niXman has hosted his build scripts at https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds where you can see the whole commit history.
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MinGW-w64, outdated binaries
'niXman' stopped uploading binaries to sourceforce, but the scripts he uses to build are uploaded at https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds
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 turns out the download from microsoft was simply totally outdated.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 mingw-builds and msys2-installer you can also consider the following projects:
w64devkit - Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 (and x86) Windows
mingw-builds-binaries - MinGW-W64 compiler binaries
mingw-distro - MinGW distro build scripts.
Quakespasm - Extra bloaty junk to modernise stuff a bit.
build-extra - Additional files and scripts to help build Git for Windows on MSYS2.
ubuntu-mainline-kernel.sh - Bash script for Ubuntu (and derivatives) to easily (un)install kernels from the Ubuntu Kernel PPA
docker-go-mingw - Docker image for building Go binaries with MinGW toolchain
Build-Scripts - Collection of build scripts useful when testing on downlevel, abandonware and ransomware clients
winpthreads-zigbuild - The Winpthreads Library for Zig toolchain
mingw-builds vs w64devkit
msys2-installer vs mingw-builds-binaries
mingw-builds vs mingw-distro
msys2-installer vs Quakespasm
mingw-builds vs mingw-builds-binaries
msys2-installer vs build-extra
mingw-builds vs ubuntu-mainline-kernel.sh
msys2-installer vs mingw-distro
mingw-builds vs docker-go-mingw
mingw-builds vs Build-Scripts
mingw-builds vs winpthreads-zigbuild