Reuben Thomas asked: > I'm interested in why you suspect MSYS would be worse than mingw? Is it > because it is not as widely used as mingw
That is one factor. The other one is that they welcome changes that are buggy in the long run, such as - in MSYS1, the argv[] processing in the middle of the execv* functions, - https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/commit/7bafcb508292f6fb4cb083b2f20de8c38468f8eb Bruno