msys2 portable and change name of home directory

[candrapersada]

is there a portable version?

[Biswa96]

Use the .tar.xz or .sfx.exe files from msys2-installer release. Link https://github.com/msys2/msys2-installer/releases

[candrapersada]

change the name of the home directory so it doesn't change automatically for portable?

[genio]

Can we get .zip or .tar.gz releases, please? Windows has no built-in way to extract .tar.xz from the command line.

[Biswa96]

Maybe try the .sfx.exe file, its a Self Extracting Archive.

[jeremyd2019]

change the name of the home directory so it doesn't change automatically for portable?

in /etc/nssswitch.conf

db_home: /home/user

(or wherever you'd like the home directory to be)?

[genio]

Maybe try the .sfx.exe file, its a Self Extracting Archive.

yea, already tried that but powershell is dying on the download: exe and unsigned content. An actual zip or any format that's extractable on windows by default (not sure why .tar.xz was chosen) would be awesome.

[genio]

Any chance of getting zips in the future?