msys2 has recently moved towards recommending using the ucrt64/clang64 environment over the mingw64 environment and instead now recommends installing mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-toolchain rather than mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain as mentioned in Using GCC with MinGW.
Doing so would also require updating the path mentioned from C:\msys64\mingw64\bin to C:\msys64\ucrt64\bin.
The only limitations would be that ucrt is not installed by default on Windows 7 and msys2 does not currently provide an ucrt32 environment. However, since vscode's requirements page shows Windows 8.0, 8.1 and 10, 11 (32-bit and 64-bit), I would assume the first limitation does not apply, and the second matters less on the basis that 32-bit is only mentioned in a small section leading to msys2's page.
Hi,
msys2 has recently moved towards recommending using the ucrt64/clang64 environment over the mingw64 environment and instead now recommends installing
mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-toolchain
rather thanmingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
as mentioned in Using GCC with MinGW. Doing so would also require updating the path mentioned fromC:\msys64\mingw64\bin
toC:\msys64\ucrt64\bin
.The only limitations would be that ucrt is not installed by default on Windows 7 and msys2 does not currently provide an ucrt32 environment. However, since vscode's requirements page shows
Windows 8.0, 8.1 and 10, 11 (32-bit and 64-bit)
, I would assume the first limitation does not apply, and the second matters less on the basis that 32-bit is only mentioned in a small section leading to msys2's page.