-By default, Windows has no real environment to handle the necessary scripting and compiling tools for building Xonotic… So, what we have to do is install something called [msysgit](https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list) to allow us to have a similar environment as on Linux. In this case, we want the download which is entirely self contained (including build-essentials and other corely required dependencies), which at the time of writing this is called “msysGit-fullinstall-1.8.0-preview20121022.exe.” Simply follow the instructions on screen at this point. NOTE: Unless you know what you’re doing, install with default settings/directories.
+By default, Windows has no real environment to handle the necessary scripting and compiling tools for building Xonotic. So, what we have to do is install something called [MSYS2](http://www.msys2.org) to allow us to have a similar environment as on Linux. Download 64 bit version of MSYS2 (msys2-x86_64-xxxxxx.exe) and follow installation instructions.
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+Once you have completed the installation, close the current MSYS2 shell and launch a MSYS2 MINGW64 shell by running mingw64.exe (instead of the default msys2.exe) located at C:\msys64 and install the needed dependencies with this command:
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+ pacman --needed -S git curl zip unzip p7zip make automake autoconf libtool gcc gmp-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-{toolchain,gmp,SDL2,libjpeg-turbo,libpng,libogg}