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Update "Before you begin" help to reference MSYS2 packages

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@ -30,17 +30,27 @@ Cygwin produces executables that use the Cygwin POSIX runtime. Note that this ru
MinGW produces native Windows executables that do not require a separate runtime.</p> MinGW produces native Windows executables that do not require a separate runtime.</p>
<ul> <ul>
<li><p>For <strong>MinGW</strong>, it is recommended to use the MinGW installer, mingw-get, to manage your <li><p>For <strong>MinGW</strong>, it is recommended to use the MSYS2 software distribution.
MinGW installation. Download and run the lateset mingw-get-inst package from the The CDT will automatically detect tools that are installed using the MSYS2 package manager.
<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files">MinGW Downloads page.</a> Download and run the latest MSYS2 installer by following instructions on the <a href="https://www.msys2.org/">MSYS2 Getting Started</a> page.
The CDT MinGW toolchain will find this install if it is located in the default C:\MinGW directory, the MinGW bin When you reach the UCRT64 environment prompt, use the following commands to install individual tools:</p>
directory is placed in your path, or if the MinGW location is stored in the MINGW_HOME environment variable.</p> <p />
<p>Note that the Wascana IDE has been discontinued.</p> <p><table style="border: 1px solid grey; border-collapse: collapse;">
<tr><th style="border: 1px solid grey; padding: 5px;">Tool</th> <th style="border: 1px solid grey; padding: 5px;">Installation command</th><tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid grey; padding: 5px;">clangd</td> <td style="border: 1px solid grey; padding: 5px;"><tt>pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-clang-tools-extra</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid grey; padding: 5px;">cmake</td> <td style="border: 1px solid grey; padding: 5px;"><tt>pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-cmake</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid grey; padding: 5px;">gcc</td> <td style="border: 1px solid grey; padding: 5px;"><tt>pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid grey; padding: 5px;">gdb</td> <td style="border: 1px solid grey; padding: 5px;"><tt>pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gdb</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid grey; padding: 5px;">make</td> <td style="border: 1px solid grey; padding: 5px;"><tt>pacman -S make</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid grey; padding: 5px;">ninja</td> <td style="border: 1px solid grey; padding: 5px;"><tt>pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-ninja</tt></td></tr>
</table></p>
</li> </li>
<li><p><strong>Cygwin</strong> can be installed from the Cygwin site at <li><p><strong>Cygwin</strong> can be installed from the Cygwin site at
<a href="https://www.cygwin.com">https://www.cygwin.com</a>. You need to manually select <a href="https://www.cygwin.com">https://www.cygwin.com</a>. You need to manually select
the gcc, gdb, and make packages to install the toolchain.</p> the gcc, gdb, and make packages to install the toolchain.
Note that there is a <a href="https://github.com/eclipse-cdt/cdt/issues/228">known issue</a>
with running recent versions of Cygwin gdb under the CDT.</p>
</li> </li>
<li><p>The <strong>Windows SDK</strong> provides the Visual C++ compiler and header files and libraries required <li><p>The <strong>Windows SDK</strong> provides the Visual C++ compiler and header files and libraries required