Those instructions are for Windows 7+, I don't believe Msys2 will work on Vista or XP.
While theoretically Pd could be build on anything with a C compiler, I think you're a bit more on your own with setting up / maintaining a build system for anything that old at this point. Maybe someone else has some ideas on that, I sure don't.
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my ultimate goal is to be able to compile on an older machine with XP.
to get experience i first tried on Windows 10.
installed MSYS2 etc (following Dan's instructions on the GITHUB page.
start MSYS2, cd to the src folder of Vanilla 48.1, and do
make
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