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authorjw <johnwmurphy@gmail.com>2016-09-05 07:54:25 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2016-09-05 07:54:25 -0700
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Update MSYS2 build instructions.
Describe process for building on Windows using current version of MSYS2.
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* Download and install the [MSYS2 installer](http://msys2.github.io), either the 64-bit or the 32-bit package, depending on your system.
* Open the MSYS shell via the `MSYS2 Shell` shortcut
-* Update the packages in your MSYS2 install:
+* Update the core packages in your MSYS2 install:
- pacman -Sy
- pacman -Su --ignoregroup base
- pacman -Su
+ update-core
+
+* Exit the MSYS shell using Alt+F4, then restart MSYS and update packages using pacman:
+
+ pacman -Syuu
+
+* Exit the MSYS shell using Alt+F4
+* Edit the properties for the MSYS2 Shell changing "msys2_shell.bat" to "msys2_shell.cmd -mingw64"
+* Restart MSYS shell via modified shortcut and update packages again using pacman:
+
+ pacman -Syuu
- For those of you already familiar with pacman, you can run the normal `pacman -Syu` to update, but you may get errors and need to restart MSYS2 if pacman's dependencies are updated.
* Install dependencies: