Problems with MSYS2 FFmpeg Environment Setup

[tbicim]

Summary of the bug:
When I run msys2_shell from the vs prompt cl and armasm points to correct locations however link doesn't.
How to reproduce:

open visual studio 2015 command prompt
run msys2_shell.bat to open msys command prompt
run which cl
run which link
run which armasm 

Result:

$ which cl
/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/BIN/x86_ARM/cl

$ which link
/usr/bin/link

$ which armasm
/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/BIN/x86_ARM/armasm

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Aren't you describing the issue you as user have to solve to be able to compile FFmpeg with msys or do I misunderstand?

[tbicim]

Replying to cehoyos:

Aren't you describing the issue you as user have to solve to be able to compile FFmpeg with msys or do I misunderstand?

I followed the guide on the site and I am having problems build the system.
I thought someone else might have encountered the same issue so I posted here.

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Isn’t it sufficient to mv /usr/bin/link /usr/bin/link.bak?
Personally, I strongly recommend to use wsl to build native Windows binaries.

[Hendrik]

Thats why we have compat/windows/mslink in the tree, which gets automatically used when you specify --toolchain=msvc. Not sure what guide you are following, but using --toolchain instead of overriding CC/LD manually is quite recommended.

[tbicim]

Replying to heleppkes:

Thats why we have compat/windows/mslink in the tree, which gets automatically used when you specify --toolchain=msvc. Not sure what guide you are following, but using --toolchain instead of overriding CC/LD manually is quite recommended.

I followed this guide:
​https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/WinRT

When I invoke the configure command I get the error: unknown option "--toolchain=msvc".