Okay! I *somehow* got the bright idea that maybe I should continue developing one particular weird project that depends on C/C++ libraries.

I *think* I got a helloworld-esque app to compile in MSVC long ago? It didn't spark joy exactly.

I installed #MSYS2 and clang on Windows *again* and I *hope* pacman won't completely randomly hose itself this time.

#programming

WindowsでMSYS2のg++が見つからない原因がノートンだった話
https://qiita.com/hikercomet/items/0071809615e2d06b213f?utm_campaign=popular_items&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=popular_items

#qiita #C #Windows #環境構築 #msys2 #Norton

The #endof10 is nigh, only a month away. How I spent the day?
Trying to install secushare.org PSYC module for #Perl5 on #msys2 with... less than stellar results.
Why CPAN Testers aren't reporting this? Because first you need to install their testing tools. And how did it went? I thought so.
For volunteers of such critical value they barely even have a working website.
I may end up reinstalling Perl, just to be sure.

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Solución: tar -tf archivo.tar.gz

"-t" (o --list) lista el contenido de un tarball.
"-f" especifica el nombre del archivo.

tar en #Linux detecta automáticamente si el tarball está comprimido, y con qué formato, y lista su contenido, sin necesidad de añadir la opción de compresión (-z, -j, -J, etc).

Por lo que comentaron, hay implementaciones de tar que no detectan el formato de compresión, y hay que especificarlo (como #msys2)

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The wonders of #Python on #Windows (via #MSYS2)...

If you run your Python script using "./script.py", then `Path` from #pathlib becomes `PosixPath`.

If you run the same script using "python script.py" instead, then `Path` becomes `WindowsPath`.

Chers!

Ok, where do I have to look for the camera?

Spoiler: Compare package versions and file hashes.

#MSYS2 #Pacman #Bugs #Programming

MSYS2, GDB и управление памятью

Эта история началась с того, что мне захотелось поработать с интерпретатором одного очень экзотического языка программирования, а закончилась тем, что я освоил не менее экзотические (для меня) нюансы работы с памятью в С в Windows и POSIX, и того, как работает отладчик gdb в Windows. ну очень экзотического

https://habr.com/ru/articles/907662/

#msys2 #gdb #mmap #memset

Das #Barcamp #Graz 2025 wird in den #lightningtalks der Linuxtage angekündigt.

Save-the-date : 17.05.2025

Lightning talks sind #Kurzvorträge bei denen man sich kurzfristig zu einem (max. 5 Minuten langen) #Vortrag meldet.

Außerdem diesmal noch dabei:
#pijul, #msys2, #openwrt und #orgmode, Methoden zu #spam-Verhinderung, #softskills,
#private.coffee ,

https://pretalx.linuxtage.at/glt25/talk/CRMYE8/

In case anyone is wondering why #ssh (#openssh) is failing silently on #msys2 - seems they pushed out a version that depends on an msys2 runtime version that's stuck in some kind of release queue: https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/5320

Almost forgot.
Yesterday I tried installing #MSYS2. I think I need to redo it later with better luck.

I don't know how else to phrase it, but once I tried running full update, the MSYS2 environment just *shat itself.* I must emphasise that I do not use this kind of expression lightly.
First it said the pacman database was funky. Then bash started whining about not being able to create processes.
*What.*
...I uninstalled the whole thing before things got even weirder.

Last time I tried using #Cygwin was early 2000s. All I can remember about that experience was that it was mildly janky, and I heard that MinGW was coming to fix all that. ...I guess at this pace we'll never get rid of the jank.

#Windows

Earlier I said that I had plans of starting a #cplusplus project but had to stop it because setting the build dependencies up in Windows is still an absolute nightmare. Annnd that the libraries are available in #Python anyway, so I should probably just write this in Python.

OK, after the first assessment, I'm no longer that sure.

One of the things I want to use is #SDL3, which does have Python library. ...with incredibly liberal application of `ctypes` on top of it. This is going to be an absolute headache *anyway*.

I'm mildly at some bargaining phase, like, um, maybe I cold bite the bullet and go with #MSYS2 after all.

The #Geany developers are looking for a new maintainer for the Windows builds of Geany.

The Windows builds of Geany were created previously on a Windows 7 VM which is not supported any longer.
We are looking for a new maintainer who likes to take care of the Windows builds, knows MSYS2 and has access to a Windows system with a recent version to be able to build and test Geany on Windows.

For more details and comments, see https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/4189.

#geany #geanyIDE #msys2 #maintainer #foss

@malanalysis seriously need a powershell for bash scripters , using #msys2 is getting old.

#webdev #gamedev news! I am almost over the first hurdle for making the TMX export for Etrian Map Maker! I just need to make sure that the XML I'm generating matches the format #Tiled map editor is expecting.

As a result, I downloaded Tiled onto my #MSYS2 install so it's portable.

The method I use to build #emacs on #windows #msys2

https://gist.github.com/LdBeth/d663a7d3ea27776bfe211241ad7fa5e5

Finished moving most of my non-gamedev tools into the portable #msys2 install sitting on the coding HDD. ...I'm not entirely sure if I should move the #neovim install from being a folder maintained outside of it or install the msys2 local version.

#schule mit #foss:
In einer nächsten Stunde gibt's Linux serviert.
#alpine mit #xfce läuft auch eingequetscht in unsere Win-VMs, dank #msys2 + #qemu

https://www.qemu.org/
https://www.msys2.org/
https://alpinelinux.org/

Pro tip: running "pacman -Ss | grep installed" will get all installed packages with their repos if you use a distro that uses pacman, like Arch, or environments like MSys2.

#ArchLinux #Arch #Linux #MSys2

Some more #GTK4 cross-compilation to non-free systems with #WINE + #MSYS2/ #Darling + #Homebrew shenanigans - here we have the Apple-provided and built XCode toolchain & homebrew running on Darling on Linux building the GTK 4 Hello World example, which then successfully runs on real macOS 14!

Reddit tells me that #MSYS2 is one of the more comprehensive and up-to-date distributions of #MinGW-w64, so i'm gonna use that.

the funny thing about this one is that it uses regular pacman

(neofetch came by default - that was not my doing!)