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Cygwin vs Msys2

Who’s behind each, what their homepages track, what they cost and how often their policies changed, measured the same way for both. By what they offer, they’re very close.

Cygwin

Free, open-source Unix-like environment for Microsoft Windows, consisting of a POSIX compatibility DLL (cygwin1.dll) and a large collection of GNU and open-source command-line tools installable through a setup program.

Msys2

MSYS2 is a free, open-source software distribution for Windows that provides a Unix-like shell, the Pacman package manager, and native builds of compilers and libraries (GCC, mingw-w64, CMake, Python, Rust) for building and running native Windows software.

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