After finishing that, you still have no toolchains or libraries. The instructions on that page are a good description on how to do the initial setup. MSYS2 starts with a pretty decent installer. But also make sure you add all the libraries for that architecture too. If you are targeting both 32 and 64 bit, simply add the other toolchain. If you are on 32-bit Windows, go mingw32 and i686 toolchain. Hopefully we can simplify this a bit.įirst, most people are on 64-bit Windows these days and for that, just select the mingw64 packages and the x86_64 toolchains. Now you’re up to five combinations.īut it’s what we got so we’ll have to make due. And it gets worse installing the toolchain since mingw32 and mingw64 each have toolchains that target 32-bit and 64-bit. pacman makes you pick each time you install a package. The problem gets worse as there are actually three sets of packages, msys (common), mingw32 (for 32-bit tools), and mingw64 (for 64-bit tools) and some packages are in multiple of those. But I worry that it’s a tough fit for Windows users. I’m sure people who use Arch Linux love pacman. This article will give a quick guide on how to set up MSYS2 with the proper set of packages to start building C++ projects on Windows.įirst a quick rant about their choice of package manager, pacman.
Cygwin, being a Linux emulation layer, and the recent Bash for Windows are actually hard for CDT to integrate with because they hide away the native.įor Eclipse Neon, CDT has added support for automatically detecting the MinGW compilers in an MSYS2 installation. As Eclipse is a native application, it really expects things like path names and such to be native Windows things. On Windows, the CDT loves MinGW and MSYS. It’s kept reasonably up-to-date and I’m sure if we can grow the community even more, we could get things even faster (e.g. It’s actually grown beyond that and has a pretty rich set of packages that include CMake, clang and gcc, and a huge set of libraries including Qt and SDL.
MSYS2 is a relatively new distribution to support the MinGW compiler on Windows.
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