MSYS2

MSYS2 is a software distro and building platform for Windows. At its core is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software. It provides a bash shell, Autotools, revision control systems and the like for building native Windows applications using MinGW-w64 toolchains. It features a package management system to provide easy installation of packages, Pacman. It brings many powerful features such as dependency resolution and simple complete system upgrades, as well as straight-forward package building. Ruby integration This package can be used with ruby (https://chocolatey.org/packages/ruby) package to provide native building environment for gems. - The ruby installer comes with ridk function which offers interactive GUI installation wizard of msys2 and hence can't be used unattended (https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller2/issues/79) ( ridk install 1 ). - Its system update is the same as initialization done with this package ( ridk install 2 ). - Ruby installer offers unattended setup of MSYS2 and MINGW development toolchain ( ridk install 3 ). You can also just install the msys2 package without system update and use ridk afterwards: powershell cinst ruby install ruby cinst msys2 --params "/NoUpdate" install msys2 without system update Update-SessionEnvironment refresh environment vars ridk install 2 3 use ruby's ridk to update the system and install development toolchain Package parameters - /InstallDir - Path to installation directory, by default msys will be installed in Get-ToolsLocation . - /NoPath - Do not add msys installation directory to system PATH. - /NoUpdate - Do not automatically update with Pacman according to the official instructions (https://msys2.github.io). Example: choco install msys2 --params "/NoUpdate /InstallDir:C:\your\install\path" Notes - MSYS2 itself will not be installed again on updating or reinstalling the Chocolatey