MSYS2 package

[dsisnero]

Not really an issue but I created and got it put into the MSYS2 package system for windows users. To install mruby from windows with the MSYS2 system open msys2 shell and do the following:

pacman -Syu

pacman -Ss mruby
mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-mruby 1.4.0-1
mruby is the lightweight implementation of the Ruby language (mingw-w64)
mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby 1.4.0-1 [installed]
mruby is the lightweight implementation of the Ruby language (mingw-w64)

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby

C:\Users\Dominic E Sisneros>mirb
mirb - Embeddable Interactive Ruby Shell

3 + 3
=> 6
exit

C:\Users\Dominic E Sisneros>

[dsisnero]

This is what is installed in msys2

pacman -Qlp mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby-1.4.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/bin/
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/bin/mirb.exe
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/bin/mrbc.exe
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/bin/mrdb.exe
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/bin/mruby-strip.exe
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/bin/mruby.exe
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mrbconf.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/array.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/boxing_nan.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/boxing_no.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/boxing_word.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/class.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/common.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/compile.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/data.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/debug.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/dump.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/error.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/gc.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/hash.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/irep.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/istruct.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/khash.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/numeric.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/object.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/opcode.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/proc.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/range.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/re.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/string.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/throw.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/value.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/variable.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/include/mruby/version.h
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/lib/
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/lib/libmruby.a
mingw-w64-x86_64-mruby /mingw64/lib/libmruby_core.a

What else is needed? How can a person go from here to using mrbgems? Can we compile mrbgems and the build system into mruby ? Do I need to include the mrbgems directory into the package ?

[ghost]

I can't answer any of your questions but it's pretty cool that msys works on windows, even though with WSL one can also simply use a *nix-like environment on windows machines these days. (I remember I used the old MSYS to get things to work on windows in the past, but it was not very convenient... still easier than cygwin though).

[graywolf]

Just to react on @ghost , WSL is not silver bullet solving everything. Sometimes msys2 or cygwin are better choice.

I'm not able to help with original question though :/