[Msys2-users] Msys2 + Windows 10 + pacman errors

[Benjamin Burgess]

Greetings,

I have downloaded msys2-x86_64-20160921.exe and installed on my windows
machine. It has a small SDD for C drive OS and larger HDD for data. So I
installed on D. I mention this because it's the only thing I changed
during install.
I got pacman and the system updated, 32bit and 64 said nothing to do. Then
proceeded to follow some possibly outdated instructions for setting up a
dev environment to compile gimp.

pacman -S base-devel \
mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain \
git \
mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk2 \
mingw-w64-x86_64-json-glib \
mingw-w64-x86_64-json-c \
mingw-w64-x86_64-gexiv2 \
mingw-w64-x86_64-lcms2

Which produced (conflicting files) errors.

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error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
mingw-w64-x86_64-libiconv: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-gmp: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-libwinpthread-git: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-libgfortran: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-libs: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-bzip2: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-binutils: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-headers-git: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-crt-git: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-isl: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-mpfr: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-mpc: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-windows-default-manifest: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-git: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-ada: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-fortran: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-objc: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-expat: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-gettext: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-gdbm: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-libffi: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-libtre-git: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-libsystre: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-ncurses: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-libtasn1: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-p11-kit: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-ca-certificates: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-openssl: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-termcap: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-readline: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-tcl: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-tk: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-python2: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-libmangle-git: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-make: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-tools-git: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-hicolor-icon-theme: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-wineditline: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-pcre: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-glib2: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-libjpeg-turbo: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-jasper: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-libpng: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-xz: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-libtiff: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-gdk-pixbuf2: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-graphite2: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-harfbuzz: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-freetype: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-fontconfig: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-lzo2: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-pixman: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-cairo: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-pango: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-libxml2: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-libcroco: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-librsvg: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-adwaita-icon-theme: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-gnome-common: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-atk: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-shared-mime-info: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk2: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-json-glib: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-json-c: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-exiv2: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-gexiv2: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
mingw-w64-x86_64-lcms2: /mingw64 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I do not see this /mingw64 path on any mount points. I tried running
separately and git and base-devel install fine. But when I try
mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain I get some of the errors from above.

Anyone familiar with this off the top of your head?

Thanks,
BBB

[Jan Niklas Hasse]

Hi!

I've ran into the same problem yesterday. Simply creating the
folder using

mkdir /mingw64

fixed it for me. The problem seems to be that pacman only sees the
mingw64.exe file in /.