I use Console2 (link1 link2), it's like a wrapper around the standard console, but allows to copypaste text with ctrl-shift-c and ctrl-shift-v. I find it much more comfortable than the consoles that come with msys2, they have like ctrl-ins shift-ins weirdness. And having two different consoles around isn't good.
How can I use Console2 to launch the compiler? I'd add C:\msys64\mingw32\bin to PATH, but I don't want to have too many exe and dll around in PATH, don't want to distribute something that depends on libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll by accident.
Also, I need to be able to switch between mingw32 and mingw64 compilers somehow.
Tried reading c:/msys64/msys2_shell.cmd, don't understand what's in it.
Switching to windows command line probably requires to move from unix shell commands to windows ones. I could rewrite some makefiles I'm working with, it's not that much of a problem.
Maybe I could go the other way, to use msys2 console in my everyday life. I only use it to launch youtube-dl and one other program I wrote anyway. It would require making copypasting easier, and some way to switch between mingw32 and mingw64.
https://stackoverflow.com/posts/46015587/edit
Temporary solution: create three files g3.bat, g6.bat and gg.bat, and put them in one of the PATH directories. They allow to temporarily add or delete mingw32 or mingw64 in PATH.
g3.bat:
call gg.bat
SET PATH=%PATH%C:\msys64\mingw32\bin;
g6.bat:
call gg.bat
SET PATH=%PATH%C:\msys64\mingw64\bin;
gg.bat:
set PATH=%PATH:C:\msys64\mingw32\bin;=%
set PATH=%PATH:C:\msys64\mingw64\bin;=%
Call this to check the result: echo %PATH%
Version 2, that tries to not use leading ;
It almost works, but gg.bat still leaves leading ; behind. I could use set PATH=%PATH:;C:\msys64\mingw32\bin=% instead (notice extra ; to the right of %PATH:), but it would break if C:\msys64\mingw32\bin is at the beginning of PATH.
Also, I'm not sure if "" is necessary there or not.
g3.bat:
call gg.bat
SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\msys64\mingw32\bin
g6.bat:
call gg.bat
SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\msys64\mingw64\bin
gg.bat:
set PATH=%PATH:C:\msys64\mingw32\bin=%
set PATH=%PATH:C:\msys64\mingw64\bin=%
set "PATH=%PATH:;;=;%"
Version 3, "eeh whatever":
gg.bat:
set PATH=%PATH:;C:\msys64\mingw32\bin=%
set PATH=%PATH:;C:\msys64\mingw64\bin=%
set PATH=%PATH:C:\msys64\mingw32\bin;=%
set PATH=%PATH:C:\msys64\mingw64\bin;=%
set PATH=%PATH:C:\msys64\mingw32\bin=%
set PATH=%PATH:C:\msys64\mingw64\bin=%
set PATH=%PATH:;;=;%
