

target, is the package name and version (separated by a hyphen) for which the patch was first created.# a sequence number, starting from 001.When creating a patch file, you can use the following naming convention for its name: #-target-Purpose.patch If you don't want to read all that just yet, just read some existing PKGBUILDs the purpose of most parts should be obvious. The mingw PKGBUILDs are loosely based on the mingw-w64 cross-compilation packages guidelines in Arch Linux. The PKGBUILD manpage and the PKGBUILD wikipage on ArchWiki are good sources to read about all the details of PKGBUILDs. Use 2 spaces for indentation: expand -t 2 PKGBUILD > PKGBUILD.new & mv PKGBUILD.new PKGBUILDĪ PKGBUILD is a bash script defining variables and functions that are then used by the build system to create the package. The directory is also used when building as a working place by default. Typically, each recipe is in its own directory.
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For more complex cases it also contains install scripts or a number of patch files which are needed to be applied on the released version of the upstream software in order to be able to compile and work in the given environment.

In the simplest form it is a single file named PKGBUILD, which contains metadata for the package, a specification where the source for the given software can be found, and a few lines of code which that takes the source and builds the final software from it.

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A recipe is a set of files which describe how to build, package and install a given piece of software these are often specific to MSYS2. Packages are built from programmatic recipes to ensure builds are reproducible. In this document, to attempt to avoid confusion, MSYS2 refers to the software distribution while msys refers to the repository, the packages in that repository and the software in those packages that link to msys-2.0.dll. Native Windows software (from this project's perspective) is software that doesn't depend on msys-2.0.dll, and links dynamically to the highly compatible msvcrt.dll. msys software (from the msys repository) is software that depends on msys-2.0.dll and is very similar to Cygwin software (which is a POSIX emulation layer for Windows). There are 3 package repositories, msys, mingw32, and mingw64. The MSYS2 software distribution uses a port of Pacman (known from Arch Linux) to safely install, remove and update binary packages and also to build those packages in the first place.
