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   git mercurial mingw-w64-x86_64-ccache mingw-w64-x86_64-icoutils mingw-w64-x86_64-librsvg texinfo</syntaxhighlight>
   git mercurial mingw-w64-x86_64-ccache mingw-w64-x86_64-icoutils mingw-w64-x86_64-librsvg texinfo</syntaxhighlight>


Using ccache is optional. It speeds up compilation time but needs several GiB free disc space for its cache. If disc space is an issue, this step can be skipped. To prepend the path to the ccache helper scripts to the front of the PATH variable, add the following line near the end of the {{Path|.bash_profile}} file in your MSYS2 {{Path|$HOME}} directory:
Using ccache is optional. It speeds up compilation time but needs several GiB free disk space for its cache. If disk space is an issue, this step can be skipped. To prepend the path to the ccache helper scripts to the front of the PATH variable, add the following line near the end of the {{Path|.bash_profile}} file in your MSYS2 {{Path|$HOME}} directory:
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">export PATH="/mingw64/lib/ccache/bin:$PATH"</syntaxhighlight>
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">export PATH="/mingw64/lib/ccache/bin:$PATH"</syntaxhighlight>


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