problem trying to install under windows xp

[SCDante]

i'm trying to install devkitpro for wii under windows xp just for fun
idk where to start
is there a way to use devkitPro toolchains without msys2?
cuz i cant find a way to install a semi-modern version of msys2 that works under x86 and windows xp
or the installer crashes
or the pacman version is too old to simply understand .pkg.tar.zst package files, and trying to install anything becomes a headache, and half of the time i have to reinstall because the installation corrupts

[WinterMute]

Windows XP EOL'd a decade ago. If your machine is too old to run a more recent Windows version then perhaps linux might be more suitable. It isn't really going to be that much fun trying to keep an unsupported OS running as well as being quite risky to connect it to the internet.

Having said that you could try the 32bit msys2 bundle we created & see how that goes but bear in mind that there's very little support can be provided given that the msys2 team are no longer maintaining 32bit binaries.

You'll need 7zip from https://7-zip.org/download.html and this file then

• create a devkitPro folder somewhere with no spaces. The installer creates this on C:
• extract the 7z inside this folder so you have, for example C:\devkitPro\msys2
• [optional] edit C:\devkitPro\msys2\etc\fstab with a text editor and change #{DEVKITPRO} to C:/devkitPro

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  # map devkitPro to /opt
  #{DEVKITPRO}    /opt/devkitpro

• Double click C:\devkitPro\msys2\autorebase.bat
• Double click C:\devkitPro\msys2\msys2.exe. Let it run until it says it's done then exit
• Double click C:\devkitPro\msys2\msys2.exe again and type pacman -Syu at the prompt. Then you can install the toolchains with pacman -S wii-dev gamecube-dev
• See wiki/devkitPro_pacman#Using_Pacman for some more info.