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Package Naming

Overview

The following table lists the packages according to their environment, see 'Environments' for general information on these. When installing packages, see 'Package Management', you'll commonly use the full name including the package prefix as outlined below.

Name [^1] Package prefix [^2]
msys MSYS None
mingw64 MINGW64 mingw-w64-x86_64-
ucrt64 UCRT64 mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-
clang64 CLANG64 mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-
mingw32 MINGW32 mingw-w64-i686-
clang32 CLANG32 mingw-w64-clang-i686-
clangarm64 CLANGARM64 mingw-w64-clang-aarch64-

[^1]: environment variable MSYSTEM [^2]: environment variable MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX

Avoiding writing long package names

Use pacboy to install mingw packages without having to type the long package names (install pacboy first using pacman -S pactoys if necessary). Examples:

pacboy installs the listed packages for one or more environments. The selection of environments for each package is controlled by appending suffixes on the package name.

In particular, adding the :p suffix installs the package for the current environment only.

If no suffix is given, the selection of environments depends on what environment you're currently in - e.g. in a mingw64 environment, it currently defaults to installing the package for both mingw32 and mingw64.

See the output of pacboy help for the list of suffixes: 

$ pacboy help

    Pacboy 2016.6.24
    Copyright (C) 2015, 2016 Renato Silva
    Licensed under BSD

    This is a pacman wrapper for MSYS2 which handles the package prefixes
    automatically, and provides human-friendly commands for common tasks.

    Usage:
        pacboy [command] [arguments]
        Arguments will be passed to pacman after translation:

        For 64-bit MSYS2 shell:
            name:i means i686-only
            name:x means x86_64-only
            name:z means clang-i686-only
            name:c means clang-x86_64-only
            name:u means ucrt-x86_64-only
            name:a means clang-aarch64-only
            name:p means MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX-only

        For MSYS shell:
            name:m means mingw-w64
            name:l means mingw-w64-clang

        For all shells:
            name: disables any translation for name
            repository::name means repository/name

Here are examples of using the :x, :i and :m suffixes for installing packages for the mingw64, mingw32 and both environments: 

$ pacboy -S x265:x
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) mingw-w64-x86_64-x265-2.3-1

Total Download Size:    0.97 MiB
Total Installed Size:  20.72 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

$ pacboy -S x265:i
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) mingw-w64-i686-x265-2.3-1

Total Download Size:    0.97 MiB
Total Installed Size:  11.37 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

$ pacboy -S x265:m
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (2) mingw-w64-i686-x265-2.3-1  mingw-w64-x86_64-x265-2.3-1

Total Download Size:    0.97 MiB
Total Installed Size:  32.09 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]