Winbrew

An experimental fork of Homebrew for Windows.

Installation

• Install MinGW, MSYS, with a C and C++ compiler: http://mingw.org/download/installer
• Install msysgit: http://msysgit.github.io/
• Install Ruby: http://rubyinstaller.org/
• Make sure git and ruby are in your path
• git clone https://github.com/nddrylliog/winbrew.git /usr/local
• Add to your .bashrc:

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

• If necessary, add to your .profile:

#!/bin/sh.exe
if [ -f ${HOME}/.bashrc ]
then
  . ${HOME}/.bashrc
fi

• Close and re-open your shell, or just `source ~/.bashrc
• brew install $WHATEVER_YOU_WANT

Important notice

MSYS 1.0.18 has introduced a regression where some parallel builds will just hang. The workaround is to downgrade to 1.0.17 for the time being.

• Exit all MSYS processes (close your MinGW shells, etc.)
• Open cmd.exe (Windows standard shell)
• Change directory to your MSYS prefix/bin directory
• mingw-get upgrade msys-core-bin=1.0.17-1

For more information, refer to the bug report

What Packages Are Available?

1. You can browse the Formula directory on GitHub.
2. Or type brew search for a list.
3. Or run brew server to browse packages off of a local web server.
4. Or visit braumeister to browse packages online.

Requirement

• Ruby 1.9.2 or newer

More Documentation

brew help or man brew or check the Homebrew wiki.