"MSYS Developer Tool Kit 1.0

MSYS Developer Tool Kit (DTK) by the MinGW project is a lightweight collection of Unix-style development utilities for Windows. It augments the MSYS base system with the common GNU build tools needed to configure, build, test, and package software that targets the native MinGW toolchain. With a familiar POSIX-like shell and scripting environment, it enables conventional ./configure, make, and make install workflows on Windows without the overhead of a full POSIX emulation layer.

Highlights:

• Provides a Bash shell and essential GNU utilities for a consistent command-line experience
• Includes common build tools such as make, diffutils, sed, gawk, grep, tar, patch, and the Autotools stack (e.g., autoconf, automake, libtool), plus related helpers like gettext and pkg-config
• Integrates with MinGW’s GCC toolchain to produce native Windows executables
• Lightweight footprint focused on building and packaging open-source software and ports

Typical uses:

• Porting Unix/Linux software to Windows with minimal changes
• Maintaining and packaging MSYS/MinGW-based projects
• Running standard configure/make build pipelines on Windows

Notes:

• The MSYS DTK is a legacy component of the original MSYS/MinGW ecosystem. For most modern workflows, the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 environment (with the pacman package manager) is recommended for up-to-date tooling and packages.
• Licensed under open-source terms (primarily GPL/LGPL), consistent with the GNU tools it bundles.

"MSYS Developer Tool Kit is developed by MinGW. The most popular version of this product among our users is 1.0. The name of the program executable file is tool64.exe.