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Update README.windows msys2 instructions
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ihnorton committed Sep 10, 2015
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2. Double-click `msys2_shell.bat` in the installed msys directory. Initialize the MSYS2 base system using the `pacman` package manager included in MSYS2:

```
pacman --needed -Sy bash pacman pacman-mirrors msys2-runtime
update-core
pacman --needed -Sy bash pacman pacman-mirrors msys2-runtime # if update-core is not available
pacman -Syu #Update package database and full system upgrade
```

3. Exit and restart MSYS2, then install packages required to build julia:

```
pacman -Syu #Update package database and full system upgrade
pacman -S diffutils git m4 make patch tar p7zip msys/openssh
pacman -S diffutils git m4 make patch tar p7zip msys/openssh ca-certificates
```

4. Configure your MSYS2 shell so Python is visible on the path:
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For future reference, discussion on the msys2 git error "error setting certificate verify locations", recommends re-installing the ca-certificates package:
msys2/MSYS2-packages#273

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I thought pacman -Syu had to be after at least one restart

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