alt Hacker News> MSYS2 CLANG64
I get your point. Although my point is that there is actually zero need for MSYS at all for this, even as a developer, and especially not with the 'CLANG64' environment. These binaries themselves are built to run in the MSYS2 environment This is how I cross-compile from Windows... to Windows with LLVM-MinGW[1]:
> (gci Env:PATH).Value.Split(';') | sort
> clang-21.exe --version
clang version 21.1.2 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git b708aea0bc7127adf4ec643660699c8bcdde1273)
Target: x86_64-w64-windows-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: C:/Users/dpdx/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WinGet/Packages/MartinStorsjo.LLVM-MinGW.UCRT_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe/llvm-mingw-20250924-ucrt-x86_64/bin
Configuration file: C:/Users/dpdx/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WinGet/Packages/MartinStorsjo.LLVM-MinGW.UCRT_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe/llvm-mingw-20250924-ucrt-x86_64/bin/x86_64-w64-windows-gnu.cfg
I think you have it backwards, but I may misunderstand what you're saying.
I'm certain I haven't misunderstood the point of MSYS2's CLANG64 and other environments.
> These binaries themselves are built to run in the MSYS2 environment
I'm not sure if you're referring to the toolchain binaries or the binaries one produce's with them.
The CLANG64, etc. environments are 100% absolutely for certain for building software that can run outside of any MSYS2 environment!
You can, of course, build executables specifically intended to run inside those environments, but that’s not the primary use case.
> (gci Env:PATH).Value.Split(';') | sort
I don't want to use PowerShell or Cmd.exe when doing dev stuff on Windows. I want to do CLI work and author scripts in and for modern Bash, just like I would for Linux and macOS. I want to write Makefiles for GNU make, just like...
Now, sometimes there are bumps and sharp edges you have to deal with via `if [[ -v MSYSTEM ]]; then`, similar in Makefile, cygpath conversion, template/conditional code in sources, and so on. But that's a small price to pay, from my perspective, for staying in the same mental model for how to build software.