I've been gaming some lately, and decided to start developing on Windows because I'm too lazy to reboot my computer to get to Arch.
I set up MSYS2 and after installing a bunch of packages through its pacman distribution, I was able to successfully compile bsnes-plus.
There really wasn't much help online for the problems I had with MSYS2 along the way, though. If it isn't the more widely used option for developing with windows, what is? Through the painful process of GUI installers with the regular command line and restarting the prompt every time you install something because you had to change the path?
I guess cygwin would be the obvious answer, but I don't like using the installer as a package manager, and when I did find an alternative, it didn't have some packages I needed.
I set up MSYS2 and after installing a bunch of packages through its pacman distribution, I was able to successfully compile bsnes-plus.
There really wasn't much help online for the problems I had with MSYS2 along the way, though. If it isn't the more widely used option for developing with windows, what is? Through the painful process of GUI installers with the regular command line and restarting the prompt every time you install something because you had to change the path?
I guess cygwin would be the obvious answer, but I don't like using the installer as a package manager, and when I did find an alternative, it didn't have some packages I needed.