From 3dad47fedd9f01cfebc85c415e49a098940869c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ret394 Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 03:43:15 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md msys2 is 1 thing to set-up, like cygwin. --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ff73938..c9fa337 100755 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -575,6 +575,8 @@ These items are relevant *only* on Windows. - Access the power of the Unix shell under Microsoft Windows by installing [Cygwin](https://cygwin.com/). Most of the things described in this document will work out of the box. +- Use [MSYS2](https://www.msys2.org/), it's smaller than Cygwin and most things should work out of the box. + - On Windows 10, you can use [Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)](https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/about), which provides a familiar Bash environment with Unix command line utilities. - If you mainly want to use GNU developer tools (such as GCC) on Windows, consider [MinGW](http://www.mingw.org/) and its [MSYS](http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys) package, which provides utilities such as bash, gawk, make and grep. MSYS doesn't have all the features compared to Cygwin. MinGW is particularly useful for creating native Windows ports of Unix tools.