How to bootstrap msys2 doc?

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How to bootstrap msys2 doc?

Opened this issue 3 years ago · 4 comments

elmarco commented 3 years ago

Hi!

Thanks for the great work and service :)

Is there any document that explains how MSYS2 is bootstrapped from source?

Answer 1 · 2022-01-20T20:44:35.000Z

What are you trying to do?

Answer 2 · 2022-01-20T22:54:59.000Z

Learn how it was built, eventually try to build it myself.

Answer 3 · 2022-05-02T17:41:53.000Z

It's unlikely that there ever was a proper bootstrap path. Likely cross compiling cygwin from Linux, then build a cygwin toolchain, then build the msys toolchain + cross toolchains with that, and then bootstrap the mingw ones using the msys cross compilers.

Lots of mingw packages can also be cross compiled from Linux directly.

Answer 4 · 2024-05-04T09:42:33.000Z

somewhat related, someone created a cygwin bootstrap process for Arch Linux: https://github.com/ookiineko/arch-cygwin