Helpful "getting started" content to link to, that I wrote
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To help people with a variety of MSYS challenges and getting started, here are some tutorial-like answers and content I've produced that I invite you to link to somewhere on your website:
- Installing & setting up MSYS2 from scratch, including adding all 7 profiles to Windows Terminal...so you can build native Windows applications with gcc on Windows.
- Detecting your build platform/environment in C and C++ at compile-time in Linux, Windows, GCC, MSYS2, Cygwin, etc.
- My repo: full demo of building and running Unix sockets in the MSYS terminl on Windows: https://github.com/ElectricRCAircraftGuy/eRCaGuy_Linux_Windows_CMake_Sockets_MSYS2
- How to specify in which of the 7 MSYS2 terminals to run a command in Windows from Bash, Command Prompt, & PowerShell
I'm a Linux user, so thank you so much for finally making Windows development bearable! With MSYS2 I can build and run the same code on Windows, including Unix sockets, as I can on Linux! THANK YOU!
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the MSYS2 homepage and the Stack Overflow answers and repository linked in the issue. Identify an appropriate location for these resources, then add links where they help users get started; done means the selected content is linked from the website and remains relevant to the surrounding guidance.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- bash, c, cmake, cpp
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100