msys2/msys2-installer

ARM support

stevefan1999-personal opened this issue · 6 comments

We could leverage the clangarm64 repo, but that means most of the MinGW ecosystem around GCC won't be available sometime

lazka commented

What are you suggesting?

@lazka I was looking to install MSYS2 on my ARM Windows box but so far I only saw x86/x64 options only. This I know is a pretty hard problem since MinGW doesn't yet support Windows on ARM far as I know

lazka commented

MSYS2 works fine with the x64 emulation provided by Windows. For native execution see msys2/MSYS2-packages#2889

@lazka sure, but on the Snapdragon 7c, the performance is terrible. Running the native x64 powershell took a minute to load

lazka commented

I don't know if that works on arm64 too (I don't have any hardware), but adding C:\msys64 to the defender exclusion list should speed things up a lot.

Either way, there is a lot of work that needs to be done before we can provide a arm64 installer.

lazka commented

I've created a page for arm64: https://www.msys2.org/wiki/arm64/

Nothing new, but we'll update things there if they change.