Doesn't need cygwin necessarily

[fpqc]

Hiya rprichard, just wanted you to know: You can build the frontend with msys2 also. I just built it from the git source.

[mintty]

It's not useful to build with MSYS for a subtle reason:

• The build environment should preferably be the same as for the surrounding mintty terminal.
• If mintty is built on MSYS, since MSYS does not use the /cygdrive prefix, mintty cannot properly recognize path names for Linux/Windows conversion for the open link and drag-and-drop functions.

[fpqc]

I wonder if the MSYS2 packaging people build mintty with a patch to change the path to an MSYS2-compatible one, or if maybe there needs to be a patch instead to WSLBridge.

[mintty]

Since wsltty includes a stand-alone minimal cygwin installation anyway, there is really no need to bother about an MSYS-based alternative package, even if you use MSYS otherwise.

[mintty]

The new release (in a few days...) will support easy invocation from cygwin (or MSYS/Git bash), simply using --WSL=, so then it's not completely useless anymore to have an MSYS build. The problem with recognition of drag-and-drop conversion remains, though.