[distribution] helix not launching (installed via msys2)

[goyalyashpal]

Summary

when installed via msys2, helix is not launching.

Reproduction Steps

I tried this as per instructions at helix docs

$ pacboy debug -S helix:u
:: Executing pacman --color auto -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-helix...
  ... MORE ...

$ # helix's executable name elsewhere is hx; following from that expectation
$ hx
bash: hx: command not found

$ helix
/ucrt64/bin/helix: line 3: /lib/helix/hx.exe: No such file or directory

I expected this to happen:

hx to launch helix.

Instead, this happened:

the hx command is not found, and with helix, it says: /ucrt64/bin/helix: line 3: /lib/helix/hx.exe: No such file or directory

Helix log

N/A

~/.cache/helix/helix.log

please provide a copy of `~/.cache/helix/helix.log` here if possible, you may need to redact some of the lines

Platform

Windows 10 22H2

Terminal Emulator

N/A

Helix Version

23.05-2

[pascalkuthe]

This is an issue with the nysys2 package you need to raise it on their issue tracker. We do not maintain package manager pakcgaes.

[goyalyashpal]

This is an issue with the nysys2 package

true. it requires setting the $MINGW_PREFIX prefix

but strangely enough, neovim from same arch/prefix mingw-w64-x86_64- launches directly as nvim without requiring any of this

msys2/MINGW-packages#17797 (comment)