I answer to 2 emailed responses and then proceed to explain why I asked my original question.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:27 AM Liu Hao <lh_mo...@126.com> wrote: > 在 2021/2/9 上午10:23, Mirko Vukovic 写道: > > Hello, > > > > Maybe I am missing something obvious, but with pacman -Ss I cannot find > git and make for mingw64. > > What are the required packages? > > > > Git cannot work without MSYS2, so there is no such thing as > 'mingw-w64-x86_64-git'. > > Make on the other hand can be ported to mingw64, which however takes CMD > syntax instead of POSIX > shell syntax. The executable name is consequently 'mingw32-make.exe' > instead of plain 'make.exe'. > -- > Best regards, > Liu Hao > > > I received one email that pointed out that I can use "pacman -S git make" In a fresh MSYS2 installation, that worked, installing the MSYS2 versions of git & make. Following Liu's email I checked for git on mingw64, using pacman -Ss git | grep mingw64 | grep ".-git " and indeed it is not present. Looking around, I found "Git for Windows", that installs mingw64 based git. See https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Install-inside-MSYS2-proper For make, I get these two packages: mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-make 4.3-1 (mingw-w64-i686-toolchain) mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-make 4.3-1 (mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain) I found the documentation on msys2 vs mingw32/64 (post by Matthiew Vachon), and I need to wrap my head on whether to go with msys2 or mingw32/64. Thank you for your answers, I think I am set for now. Mirko
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