Archived on January 2025: superseded by VCV Rack 2.6.0: building Rack with MSYS has been fixed.

Kept in case anyone finds it useful. No further updates will be released.

GccDowngraderForVCV

Downgrades MSYS2' GCC to allow building VCV Rack dependencies.

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To use:

• Clone this repository.

• Change to the folder where you cloned it.

• Run ./downgradegcc.sh

• Press any key to confirm and wait.

• If you want to prevent pacman from updating GCC (and only GCC), run ./preventgccupgrade.sh, press a key and wait.

• You can now build VCV Rack's dependencies and update other packages.

To remove

If you used the preventgccupgrade.sh script...

• Open the

  <yourmsysinstalldir>/etc/pacman.conf

  file with your favorite text editor.

• Remove the lines between:

  #<<<<Begin GCC downgrader update prevention>>>>

  and

  #<<<<End GCC downgrader update prevention>>>>

• You can remove those lines if you would like to, as well. (They are comments ignored by pacman).

• Save the file.

And… that’s it, your MSYS2 GCC will update normally going forward.

Enjoy! -Bloodbat