Top 11 MSYS2 Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software.

The name is a contraction of Minimal SYStem 2, and aims to provide support to facilitate using the bash shell, Autotools, revision control systems and the like for building native Windows applications using MinGW-w64 toolchains.

1. redsocks

redsocks Redsocks is a daemon running on the local system, that will transparently tunnel any TCP connection via a remote SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy server. It uses the system firewall's redirection facility to intercept TCP connections, thus the redirection is system-wide, with fine-grained control, and does not depend on LD_PRELOAD......

2. PkgBrowser

PkgBrowser A utility for browsing pacman databases and the AUR.Please note that pkgbrowser is a purely informational application - it cannot be used for installing, removing or updating packages.......

3. Arch Anywhere

Arch Anywhere The Arch Anywhere ISO contains an automated install script giving you the ability to install a fully custom Arch Linux system in minutes. Write the Arch Anywhere ISO to a CD or USB, boot it up from your computer or VirtualBox, and type 'arch-anywhere'. This will invoke the built-in dialog......

4. Chakra

Chakra The Chakra project aims to create a full-featured KDE build with the simplicity of Arch Linux builds.Another aim is to create support in the OS for GTK applications with the KDE environment.......

5. MinGW-w64

MinGW-w64 The project's goal is to deliver runtime, headers, and libs for developing 64 bit (x64), as well as 32 bit (x86), windows applications using gcc-4.4 or newer versions.It can be considered as a folk of MinGW(32)......

6. keynav

keynav Another episode in the revolution against mouse-requisite interfaces, keynav is one more step towards impulse-driven computing. It's a piece of an on-going experiment to make pointer-driven interfaces easier and faster for users to operate. It lets you move the pointer quickly to most points on the screen with only a......

7. MobaXterm

MobaXterm MobaXterm is an enhanced terminal for Windows with an X11 server, a tabbed SSH client and several other network tools for remote computing (VNC, RDP, telnet, rlogin). MobaXterm brings all the essential Unix commands to Windows desktop, in a single portable exe file which works out of the box.MobaXterm key......

8. FireCMD

FireCMD FireCMD command shell has features like recursive aliases, command substitution using files, HTML and CSS support, which makes it a next generation command shell. It also remembers command history and last working directory for next session. A UNIX like environment and UNIX commands are also provided using UWIN package developed......

9. mintty

mintty Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team.It can be downloaded from the main site or it can be installed through Cygwins setup.exe program, where it can be found in the Shells category. The Cygwin installer creates a......

10. gow

gow Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries. It is designed to be as small as possible, about 10 MB, as opposed to Cygwin which can run......

11. get_iplayer

get_iplayer get_iplayer is a command line utility for downloading TV and radio from BBC iPlayer .FeaturesDownloads TV and radio programmes from BBC iPlayerAllows multiple programmes to be downloaded using a single commandIndexing of most available iPlayer catch-up programmes (not iPlayer Exclusive, Red Button or BBC Three)Caching of index (default......