Welcome to the MSYS2 wiki

Welcome to the MSYS2 wiki

Introduction - overview and important information
Installing and upgrading - required reading for all users
Using packages - how to find and install packages
History - about the project's inception and origins
Re-installing from scratch - in case of unrecoverable problems
Contributing - how to help the project
Creating packages - how packages are built and how to make new ones
MSYS2 vs. Cygwin - differences and similarities
MSYS2 on Wine - how to install and use MSYS2 under Wine [sadly broken with current version of MSYS2 and no-one is actively working on a fix as far as we know]
Porting for MSYS2 or MinGW-w64 - useful resources and common issues
Package list - list of packages we provide
Launchers - various ways to launch MSYS2 shells
Distributing software without pacman - how to bundle your software built using MSYS2, including all required dependencies, to non-MSYS2-users
FAQ
About terminals, consoles and shells
Setting up SSHd on MSYS2
Sudo on MSYS2
Developer discussion
Signing packages (draft)
Tips for investigating package issues using GDB on Qt Creator (draft)

More documentation:

If you have any problems with the POSIX side of MSYS2 (e.g. ssh, home directories, user accounts, native symlinks, signal handling, ...), try to consult the Cygwin documentation first, as a lot of what's written there applies to MSYS2 as well.

There is also an excellent introduction from Matthieu Vachon describing MSYS2, the shells, pacman and other stuff in a less technical, more practical way.

Some pages on the Git for Windows wiki are relevant to MSYS2 as well.

There are various communication channels set up, including the #msys2 IRC channel on OFTC and the mailing list at msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net.

Project members:

With thanks to:

... and all of the other Open Source software projects we build, package and distribute