OU Libraries Standard MSYS2 Developer Setup

This guide covers the installation of a basic CLI toolset for Windows devs.

Set Up Your Environment

Basic setup required for a reasonably worky shell environment.

SSH for key-based authentication.

Our tools for managing VMs.

Some notes on using Acquia DevDesktop for Drupal.

Assorted other stuff that might be useful.

Docs and Tutorials

Once you've got all this stuff installed, here are some good tutorials to check out:

  • Software Carpentry's Shell Novice lesson introduces CLI basics.
  • The Unix as IDE post series is a deeper dive in to CLI-oriented development.