Ok, my bad.
No it was a good idea, I am trying to compile it right now using that way.
But, it is a bad idea in that it is very likely the crash reporting routine will crash instead of reporting a error correctly.
Found out I will need to port the console runner to MSys2; and I think that is something within my knowledge and abilities.
I have an issue getting some core plugins to link because of tinyXML link errors; but, I decided to just ignore those plugins for now.
(The Compiler Plugin compiles without any errors; and, that is the most important plugin to me.)
I am hoping the starter of this thread will do the work of porting exchndl.dll to the MSys2 environment.
If not, I plan to try my changes under CygWin64 and see if they work there.
Edit: Found this package mingw-w64-x86_64-drmingw-0.7.4-2; so, I do NOT need to worry about porting drmingw to MSys2's mingw-w64-x86_64. Note: I am NOT certain if porting is the right word; might just be a minor recompile with linking to the correct object files.
But, I am a newbie on using MSys2 and did NOT wish to do something that might be risky.
Tim S.