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Cygwin or mingw
Cygwin or mingw








cygwin or mingw

Does it really matter which shell is used to run pacman? Do I really need to open an msys2 shell to run pacman?

cygwin or mingw

= I have been running pacman from the mingw shells and it seems to work fine, opposite to what the wiki suggests. Use mingw shells for building native software and other tasks." Here are some specific confusions: I'm also confused about the difference between the shells, and which to use, even after reading the wiki, which currently says: "Use msys2 shell for running pacman, makepkg, makepkg-mingw and for building POSIX-dependent software that you don't intend to distribute.










Cygwin or mingw