updated msys and rack, now can't build

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The solution is to downgrade GCC and its libs, I just managed to build Rack doing that and nothing seems broken.

As with most things MSYS, it’s not straightforward or friendly.

  1. You need to download by hand, as MSYS doesn’t support downgrading
  • mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-13.2.0-6-any.pkg.tar.zst
  • mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-libs-13.2.0-6-any.pkg.tar.zst

from Index of /mingw/mingw64/

Take heed! There are .sig files with the same long filename… you don’t want or need those.

  1. Place the downloaded files in some folder you can access via MSYS.

  2. Using msys go to that folder and run

pacman -U -d mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-libs-13.2.0-6-any.pkg.tar.zst
pacman -U -d mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-13.2.0-6-any.pkg.tar.zst

Rack and its deps should build.

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