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by jfdjkfdhjds 643 days ago
gitshell is a opinionated msys2 install. they just picked one of the variants and removed the package manager.

this could serve as a wake up call to msys2 maintainers. every time i install it, i have absolutely no f ideia what the 6 variant icons mean and I couldn't care less since all of them mostly work... (thankfully I don't use windows much to reach a point the difference matters?) it's very overdue they just pick one and keep the others with better names in a compatibility folder or something. also, a better name.

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If you’re not sure, you probably want UCRT64. At any rate I used it to pull a rabbit out of a hat at work by building some software with it that didn’t have an official windows build.
Building in the URCRT64 environment means the executables wont run on versions of Windows older than 10 without extra runtime support, I think. So that's something to watch out for.