Video Companion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idU3fzh-COY
Update package database and packages with
pacman -Syu in the msys2 shell. Note, you can right click to paste in the shell, normal ctrl+v wouldn't work.
Close and reopen the program
Run pacman -Su
Restart the program once more.
Next we need to start installing all the fancy things we need to run our program, including gcc, sfml, and ninja:
Open the msys2 shell (this is the MSYS 2 program, not powershell)
Run pacman -S base-devel
This will ask you to select between some packages. Ignore this (the default of "all" is correct) and hit enter to continue, then enter 'Y' to continue.
Run pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja mingw-w64-x86_64-sfml mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
Let's quickly go over what the packages installed do.
gcc: A multi-language collection of compilers. A compiler takes higher level code like C, C++ and translates it, generally, to assembly code compatible with your hardware.
cmake: Post below goes into detail.
Difference between using Makefile and CMake to compile the code
ninja: A build system focused on speed, this replaces the need for the default Unix 's make command. What's a build system? In short, on compile, only the modified code should be recompiled. But that's not enough. If you only change foo.hpp, the files dependant on foo.hpp also needs to be recompiled. In a build system, you can specify dependencies, with the final goal that your compiler output is valid and takes as little time as it needs.
sfml: The rendering engine our game uses.
mingw: Our of these packages prefixes with mingw-w64-x86_64, w64 means windows 64 bits. x86_64 means the hardware uses the 64 bit version of the x86 instruction set.
Now let's modify the windows PATH variable.
C:\\msys64\\mingw64\\bin to the PATH environment variable.