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Go development environment on Windows with MSYS2

Normally, it is sufficient to grab the Go MSI installer from the website in order to set up the toolchain. However, some packages that provide Go wrappers for C libraries rely on cgo tool, which in turn, needs the GCC toolchain in order to build the glue code. Also, 3rd-party dependencies are usually hosted on services like GitHub, thus Git is also needed. This mini-guide illustrates how to setup a convenient development environment on Windows using MSYS2.

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# Put this function to your .bashrc file.
# Usage: mv oldfilename
# If you call mv without the second parameter it will prompt you to edit the filename on command line.
# Original mv is called when it's called with more than one argument.
# It's useful when you want to change just a few letters in a long name.
#
# Also see:
# - imv from renameutils
# - Ctrl-W Ctrl-Y Ctrl-Y (cut last word, paste, paste)