Msys2 : Installation et Configuration

Tool Versions

Os / Tool	Version
Windows 10 Professionnel	20H2
Msys2	20210419

Installation procedure

Start by getting and installing the Msys2 binary

Run the installer and follow the steps. Make sure to install MSYS2 in your user directory. C:\Users\USER_NAME\.msys64

Post installation procedure

Run MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit

If you are behind a proxy configure it from the command-line to start:

export http_proxy="http://LOGIN:PASSWORD@PROXY:PORT" && export https_proxy=$http_proxy && curl -ivks https://github.com

In case of TLS proxy get the root and intermediate authorities and add them.

mkdir ~/certs
# Retrieving certificates
trust anchor --store ~/certs/cert001.crt
# [...]
trust anchor --store ~/certs/certXXX.crt
update-ca-trust

Update the system

pacman -Syu

Install the base-devel and mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain packages

pacman -S --needed --noconfirm base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain

Customisation

Basic tools

pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ansible curl gcc git make man-db tmux tree unzip vim zsh

Programming language and Co

pacman -S --needed --noconfirm libcrypt-devel libffi-devel libyaml-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-libffi mingw-w64-x86_64-libsodium mingw-w64-x86_64-openssl mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config mingw-w64-x86_64-python mingw-w64-x86_64-python-pip mingw-w64-x86_64-ruby openssh openssl-devel

Python tools

export CRYPTOGRAPHY_DONT_BUILD_RUST=1
export SODIUM_INSTALL=system CFLAGS=`pkg-config --cflags libffi`
export LDFLAGS=`pkg-config --libs libffi`
pip install cffi --no-binary :all:
export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/mingw64/include
export LIBRARY_PATH=/mingw64/lib
pip install pynacl
pip install beautysh gita gitlint httpie pre-commit yamllint

Smoke Tests

Check that everything is correctly installed

tools=( ansible beautysh curl gcc git gita gitlint http locate make pip  pre-commit tmux tree unzip vim yamllint zsh )
for i in "${tools[@]}"
do
  which $i >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "$i ok" || echo "$i ko"
done

Advanced customisation

Generate your SSH key

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f $HOME/.ssh/id_ed25519 -C $(whoami)@$HOSTNAME

Install ohmyzsh

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Install additional ohmyzsh plugins

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Change msys2 launch to switch from bash to Zsh edit the C:\Users\USER_NAME\.msys64\msys2_shell.cmd

@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

set "WD=%__CD__%"
if NOT EXIST "%WD%msys-2.0.dll" set "WD=%~dp0usr\bin\"
set "LOGINSHELL=zsh"
[...] truncate output

Clone and install the powerline font and tmuxifier

mkdir -p /opt/github && cd /opt/github
git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git
git clone https://github.com/jimeh/tmuxifier.git

Install powerline font by running the script C:\Users\USER_NAME\.msys64\opt\github\fonts\install.ps1

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
C:\Users\USER_NAME\.msys64\opt\github\fonts\install.ps1

Finally

• Install dotfiles
• Configure mingw color

Source

GitHub - Msys2 installer
Microsoft - Maximum Path Length Limitation
Msys2 - site
GitHub - Install Ansible on msys2