From 9e3a1821776d1cf85f052df21830d314bb205e3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maksim Bondarenkov <119937608+ognevny@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 02:55:26 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] docs: Add an entry for msys2 package (#12287)

a package for Zed is now avialable in msys2 repository so let the users
know about it. [package
page](https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-zed)

Release Notes:

- N/A
---
 docs/src/development/windows.md | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/src/development/windows.md b/docs/src/development/windows.md
index dc04b59494..190338e3ff 100644
--- a/docs/src/development/windows.md
+++ b/docs/src/development/windows.md
@@ -64,6 +64,19 @@ And to run the tests:
 cargo test --workspace
 ```
 
+## Installing from msys2
+
+[MSYS2](https://msys2.org/) distribution provides Zed as a package. To download the prebuilt binary, run
+
+```
+pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-zed
+```
+
+then you can run `zed` in a UCRT64 shell.
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> Please, report any issue in https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues first.
+
 ## Troubleshooting
 
 ### Can't compile zed