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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
• 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:

• Alexey (Project Leader)
• Ray Donnelly
• Martell Malone
• David Macek

With thanks to:

• The MinGW-w64 Project
• The Cygwin Project
• The Qt-Project ... and all of the other Open Source software projects we build, package and distribute