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> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 02:02:57 -0600
> 
> Roughly, msys is for running bash scripts like configure, while mingw is
> the runtime libraries.

MinGW is also the development tools: the compiler, the linker,
Binutils, etc.