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Multiple concurrent MSys / MingW installations on Windows

when installing MSysgit, also MSys (as the name implies) is installed on my computer. When I additionally install DevKit for Ruby, another copy of MSys is installed on my computer. When installing the Haskell platform for Windows, another copy of MSys is installed on my computer again. Is there a way to install MSys / mingw once and tell all the other software in order to search the Path?

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The version of msys included in the Git package for Windows has been changed, and if you try to replace it with the msys package, you will run into problems. I can not comment on other packages, but in principle - this is not to worry. Disk space is significantly cheaper than the time taken to make several independent packages a common common msys platform.

However, there are actually people who are trying to figure this out. Msys now has a package management system, and I know at least one project trying to get a Git environment for Windows build working with this mingwGitDevEnv system.

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/1485482/

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