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<h2>MSYS2 (development environment)</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.msys2.org/">Download</a></p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/msys2/msys2-installer/releases">Download</a></p>
<p>Download and run the <code>msys2-x86_64-*.exe</code> installer.
Install to a directory that you have write access to, e.g. under <code>%USERPROFILE%\msys64</code>.</p>
<p>Download and run the <code>msys2-base-x86_64-*.sfx.exe</code> installer.
Install to a directory that you have write access to, e.g. under <code>%USERPROFILE%\msys64</code>.
<strong>Note:</strong> the installer will extract to <code>.\msys64</code> by default.</p>
<p>Run the <em>MSYS2 UCRT64</em> launcher.
<em>UCRT64</em> is Microsoft's <em>Universal C Runtime Library</em> and is the preferred build environment on modern (Windows 10 and above) Windows operating systems.
<p>Start the <em>MSYS2 UCRT64</em> environment by running <code>ucrt64.exe</code>.
UCRT64 is Microsoft's <em>Universal C Runtime Library</em> and is the preferred build environment on modern (Windows 10 and above) Windows operating systems.
For more information, see <a href="https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments/">Environments</a>.</p>
<p>Update the MSYS2 environment with <code>pacman -Syu</code> and then install the toolchain package group with <code>pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-toolchain</code>.
<p>Update the MSYS2 environment with <code>pacman -Syu</code>.
You might be prompted to terminate the environment to complete the installation of all the upates.
Relaunch <code>ucrt64.exe</code> if necessary, and install the toolchain package group with <code>pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-toolchain</code>.
This will install all of the build tools including <code>gcc</code>, <code>g++</code>, and <code>mingw32-make</code>, plus the <code>libstdc</code> and <code>libstdc++</code> libraries.</p>
<p>Optionally, add <code>%USERPROFILE%\msys64\ucrt64\bin</code> to the <code>%PATH%</code> environment variable to get access to the tools from the normal Windows Command Prompt or PowerShell.</p>