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MinGW-w64

Currently using the following tools for different terminals: native cmd.exe (or powershell, MinGW) and the POSIX shell (MSYS2).

MSYS2

  • Download MSYS2 from https://www.msys2.org
  • Once installed you will have 3 shortcuts:
  • MSYS2 MinGW 32-bit
  • MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit <- use this once configuration is done

  • MSYS2 MSYS2

  • Follow the instructions in the download page, at some point after running pacman -Syu it will ask to close and reopen the terminal again.

  • Install required packages for JACK:

pacman -S ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-\
{toolchain,meson,libsndfile,libsamplerate,portaudio,\
libopusenc,eigen3,readline,libtre-git,cmake,db}

On CMake use -G "MSYS Makefiles" option.

MinGW

There are different distributions of MinGW, for now I'm testing the version shipped with MSYS2. MinGW doesn't currently provide Git, see also this issue.

  • Duplicate (no symlink) mingw32-make.exe as make.exe
  • Install Git for Windows

On CMake use -G "MinGW Makefiles" option.