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by RayDonnelly 4458 days ago
mingw and MinGW-w64 are not the same thing, so that URL would be less than useful.

MSYS2 is firmly in the MinGW-w64 camp. The schism happened when GCC was ported to 64bit Windows and we've not looked back since (much; working together is always to be preferred but sometimes that is not possible).

We're investigating why sourceforge will not let me update our description.