jdpipe/winbrew

Experimental fork of Homebrew for Windows

Ruby

Winbrew

An experimental fork of Homebrew for Windows.

Installation

Install MinGW, MSYS, with a C and C++ compiler: http://mingw.org/download/installer
Install msysgit: http://msysgit.github.io/
Install Ruby: http://rubyinstaller.org/
Make sure git and ruby are in your path
git clone https://github.com/nddrylliog/winbrew.git /usr/local
Add to your .bashrc:

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

If necessary, add to your .profile:

#!/bin/sh.exe
if [ -f ${HOME}/.bashrc ]
then
  . ${HOME}/.bashrc
fi

Close and re-open your shell, or just `source ~/.bashrc
brew install $WHATEVER_YOU_WANT

Important notice

MSYS 1.0.18 has introduced a regression where some parallel builds will just hang. The workaround is to downgrade to 1.0.17 for the time being.

Exit all MSYS processes (close your MinGW shells, etc.)
Open cmd.exe (Windows standard shell)
Change directory to your MSYS prefix/bin directory
mingw-get upgrade msys-core-bin=1.0.17-1

For more information, refer to the bug report

What Packages Are Available?

You can browse the Formula directory on GitHub.
Or type brew search for a list.
Or run brew server to browse packages off of a local web server.
Or visit braumeister to browse packages online.

Requirement

Ruby 1.9.2 or newer

More Documentation

brew help or man brew or check the Homebrew wiki.