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Clarify and document our support or lack of it for msys2/cygwin/mingw

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#12,533 opened on Oct 15, 2020

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Description

We occasionally get issues around folks trying to use either emsdk or emcc from a msys2/cygwin/mingw and it would be good if we could document clearly our support for these environments.

Some related bugs: https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/12376 https://github.com/emscripten-core/emsdk/pull/631 https://github.com/emscripten-core/emsdk/issues/385

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Review the linked issues to understand the current behavior and challenges with msys2/cygwin/mingw, then compile clear documentation stating Emscripten's support status.
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