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MSYS2 ("minimal system 2") is a software distribution and a development platform for Microsoft Windows, based on Mingw-w64 and Cygwin, that helps to deploy code from the Unix world on Windows. -- Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingw-w64#MSYS2

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MSYS2 and "At least one valid and enabled repository required for this action to succeed."

I have separate MSYS2 32-bit and 64-bit installed on a Windows 8.1 test machine. MSYS2 was acquired from the MinGW-64 download page. Each installation has developer tools installed like GCC, Git, GDB, Make, etc. I'm having trouble updating MSYS2.…
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MSYS2 home folder: show ~

I've just installed MSYS2, and to have it use my Windows user folder as $HOME, I put this in /etc/bash.bashrc: HOME=$USERPROFILE And that works fine when I just run cd, except the prompt doesn't show ~ anymore as the current path when I'm there.…
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Can the Windows %PROGRAMFILES(X86)% environment variable be accessed in Cygwin or Git Bash?

In Git Bash and Cygwin, I can easily access the Windows %PROGRAMFILES% environment variable: $ echo $PROGRAMFILES C:\Program Files $ echo ${PROGRAMFILES} C:\Program Files However, due to the brackets/parentheses in the variable name, I cannot…
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Difference between msys2.exe and mingw64.exe in MSYS installation

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…
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MSYS shell in Windows Terminal Preview?

[EDITED to add:] It turns out that the actual problem here was a brainless typo I had made. The answer to my actual question is "yes, you just do the obvious thing and it works, if you aren't a moron". I'm accepting the answer that basically says…
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Why the shell of MSYS2 can find binary files without "exe" extension in the folder /usr/bin

In MSYS2, for the binary files in the folder /usr/bin, I find that I can call them by "name" or "name.exe". However, in the Windows file system, there are only binary files with "exe" extensions. The "ls" and "file" commands can output information…
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How to resolve Windows-ish file paths too in MSYS2?

How can I configure MSYS2 to resolve Windows-ish paths as if they were MSYS-ish paths? For example one of dependency of my application fails to find a file at: Error: Cannot find module…
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Use mklink in MSYS2, with runas Administrator prompt?

I've seen Use mklink in msys - however, the answer there: cmd //c 'mklink link target' ... requires that you start a MSYS2 shell with administrative privileges first. What I would like instead, is start the MSYS2 shell normally, and then type some…
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Php can not be found on MSYS2

I am using Msys2 on windows10 $ pacman -Sl | grep 'pacman ' msys pacman 5.2.1-6 [インストール済み] Then,I tried to install php. $pacman -S php error: can't find target. : php There is no package php. $ pacman -Ss php mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-doxygen…
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Compile in msys2 mingw64 with -m32 option

Inside a msys2 mingw64 shell, I would like to compile a software with the -m32 option in order to run in 32bit mode. I have installed mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain But when I compile with -m32, I have the following…
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Poor SCP performance under windows

I'm seeing some performance issues with SCP under windows, in short, I'm maxing out at 61 MB/sec on a 1Gbps Ethernet connection. Now, Windows itself have detected the connection as 1Gbps, and I've ran some tests to the same servers over SMB, which…
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Bash terminals launched from windows UI have an invalid `!::=::\` variable set

When I run printenv one of the returned variables is !::=::\. I noticed that the variable exists because docker does not work correctly with it set. $ printenv | grep :: !::=::\ $ docker stack deploy keycloak -c keycloak.yml unexpected environment…
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MSYS2 cannot be updated in winget

winget v1.4.10173 While performing winget upgrade --all I got the folowing result: Name Id Version Available Source ------------------------------------------------------------ MariaDB 10.5 (x64) MariaDB.Server 10.5.18.0…
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MSYS2 man: can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/man_db.conf

I'm on Windows 10 but using bash and MSYS2 (mingw64). I just installed man using MSYS2. The problem is when typing a command like man echo (can be any command; it doesn't have to be echo), I get this error: “man: can't open the manpath…
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try compile ffmpeg with cuda 11.1 on window10 but get error when run make -j 8

I am trying to compile ffmpeg with cuda 11.1 on Windows. I run configure like this: ./configure --arch=x86_64 --target-os=mingw64 --enable-cuda --enable-cuvid --enable-nvenc --enable-nonfree --enable-libnpp --enable-gpl --enable-libx264…
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