Category: MSYS2

MinGW / MSYS tip of the day

GullCode

If ever you encounter error like this:

(159/159) checking for file conflicts                                                                                          [###################################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
mingw-w64-i686-glib2: /mingw32/bin/gi-compile-repository.exe exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-i686-glib2: /mingw32/bin/gi-decompile-typelib.exe exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-i686-glib2: /mingw32/bin/gi-inspect-typelib.exe exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-i686-glib2: /mingw32/bin/libgirepository-2.0-0.dll exists in filesystem
...and so on...

The use the following command to update your system:

pacman -Suuy --overwrite "*"

Adding proxy to MSYS2

GullCode

If you ever need to use a proxy when updating / installing packages in msys2 you’ll have to set the following environnement variables, and put them i.e in your .bash_profile :

# .bash_profile example
# Note: username and password have to be url encoded in case they contain special chars
export http_proxy=http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@proxy:port
# or like this if not user/password required
# export http_proxy=http://proxy:port
export https_proxy=$http_proxy
export ftp_proxy=$http_proxy
export rsync_proxy=$http_proxy
# if you need a proxy ignore list
export no_proxy="localhost,127.0.0.1,localaddr,.yourlocaldomain.ext,.local"