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Windows. I need to update this section to include some mention of
these alternatives.
- The MSYS environment. I have no experience using the MSYS environment
and that configuration will not be discussed in this README file.
See http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS if you are interested in
using MSYS. People report to me that they have used MSYS
successfully. I suppose that the advantages of the MSYS environment
is that it is closer to a native Windows environment and uses only a
minimal of add-on POSIX-land tools.
- The MSYS environment. See http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS if you
are interested in using MSYS. People report to me that they have
used MSYS successfully. I suppose that the advantages of the MSYS
environment is that it is closer to a native Windows environment and
uses only a minimal number of add-on POSIX-land tools.
The download link in that Wiki takes you to the SourceForge download
site. The SourceForge MSYS project has been stagnant for some time.
The MSYS project has more recently moved to
http://odsn.net/projects/sfnet_mingwbundle. Downloads of current .zip
files are available there but no instructions for the installation.
- MSYS2 appears to a be newer re-write of MSYS. Is it available at
https://www.msys2.org. A windows installer is available at that site
along with very good installation instructions. The download is
relatively quick (at least compared to Cygwin) and the'pacman' package
management tool supports supports simple system updates. For example,
'pacman -S git' will install the GIT command line utilities.
- Other POSIX environments. Check out:
UnxUtils: https://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnxUtils
MobaXterm: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
Gow`: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki
Gow: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki
Disclaimer: In priniple, these should work. However, I have never
used any of these environments and cannot guarantee that there is