[infogulch]

You're correct, my complaints were towards mingw.org, not MSYS2. My apologies for not reading carefully enough. I may actually take a look, thanks for directing me.

[RayDonnelly]

There was a recent discussion on Reddit where some MSYS2 users chimed in that which may cover some useful ground:

http://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/2v6vlg/decission_which_...