I'm an old cygwin user who went astray years ago and would like to confirm
my MSYS2 setup.
Here's what I'm doing to have a sandboxed style setup that isolates my
normal windows setup. For example, I don't want MSYS2's default
/etc/profile to think HOME is C:\Users\Jon. I want it to think HOME is
%MSYS_INSTALL_DIR%/home/Jon and use/modify files in that location.
1) Create a desktop shortcut with
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /e:on /v:on /k C:\Apps\msys32\msys2_shell.bat
2) Modify MSYS2's msys2_shell.bat to include
set HOME=%~dp0home\Jon
3) Place the mingw-w64 official toolchain in C:\Apps\DevTools\mingw
(actually it's a windows directory symlink to
C:\Apps\DevTools\toolchains\mingwbuilds-64-4.8.2)
4) Update /etc/fstab to include
C:/Apps/DevTools/mingw /usr/local/mingw
It seems to be OK, but there's one oddity I've found so far. When I use the
shortcut, I'm dumped in `~` which pwd's to /usr/home/Jon. When I `cd ~` I'm
told I'm in /home/Jon and pwd shows the same thing. Also, my /etc/passwd
entry shows /home/Jon.
I suspect this is just cygwin's aliasing magic making things nicer for me.
But I want to check that my HOME update in msys2_shell.bat should be OK.
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