In this chapter, we will describe the MSYS and MSYS2 packages that allow many programs and libraries originally developed for Unix-like systems to be ported to Windows.
MSYS stands for Minimal SYStem and is designed to provide a process for building under Windows programs and libraries that were originally oriented for building under Unix-like systems.
MSYS includes many GNU utilities such as make, grep, gawk, gzip, tar, wget, and ...
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