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How to bootstrap msys2 doc? #179

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elmarco opened this issue Jan 20, 2022 · 4 comments
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How to bootstrap msys2 doc? #179

elmarco opened this issue Jan 20, 2022 · 4 comments

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elmarco commented Jan 20, 2022

Hi!

Thanks for the great work and service :)

Is there any document that explains how MSYS2 is bootstrapped from source?
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lazka commented Jan 20, 2022

What are you trying to do?

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elmarco commented Jan 20, 2022

Learn how it was built, eventually try to build it myself.

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lazka commented May 2, 2022 •
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It's unlikely that there ever was a proper bootstrap path. Likely cross compiling cygwin from Linux, then build a cygwin toolchain, then build the msys toolchain + cross toolchains with that, and then bootstrap the mingw ones using the msys cross compilers.

Lots of mingw packages can also be cross compiled from Linux directly.

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lazka commented May 4, 2024

somewhat related, someone created a cygwin bootstrap process for Arch Linux: https://github.com/ookiineko/arch-cygwin

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