With MSYS2 + mingw-w64, we can install stuff as it's an emulation of a POSIX system (I did that for lz4)
mingw-w64 32 bits : uname returns :
MINGW32_NT-6.1-7601
mingw-w64 64 bits : uname returns :
MINGW64_NT-6.1-7601
I don't have a MSYS2 system to test on, but if we want to support MSYS2 I see two things that we need:
We're happy to accept PRs to that end.
i'll work on this soon
here is a first attempt. If it looks good, i can do a pull request this evening
I think this could work @vtorri.
An important part will be to add a test in AppveyorCI to ensure that the capability works and does not bitrot in the future.
I'll do a PR this evening. The appveyor part could be added soon. I don't know appveyor, though.
PR #1914
Adding a make install test to AppveyorCI
to ensure this capability works and will continue to work in the future :
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/1916