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Allow using msys2 instead of cygwin #857

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@tobil4sk tobil4sk commented Sep 5, 2024

This patch provides support for using msys2 instead of cygwin as the environment for windows. It can be enabled with:

with:
  windows-environment: msys2

Otherwise, it still defaults to cygwin.

It will use the msys2 installation specified as follows:

  1. The one specified by the MSYS2_ROOT environment variable
  2. If pacman is present in PATH, it will use the installation that the pacman binary belongs to.
  3. Finally, if neither of those exist, then it uses the default installation path: C:\msys64 (available in the windows image for github actions: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/windows/Windows2022-Readme.md#msys2).

It does not cache the msys2 install, but it should be possible for setup-msys2 to handle that: https://github.com/msys2/setup-msys2.

This closes #846.

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