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Rollup merge of rust-lang#76134 - CDirkx:patch-1, r=nagisa
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Update MinGW instructions to include ninja

Rust now requires `ninja` to build, so the MinGW build instructions are updated to reflect this.

Like for `python` and `cmake`, the `mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja` package should be used. The default package from the `msys2` subsystem doesn't handle paths correctly on windows.
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matklad authored Aug 31, 2020
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# Install build tools needed for Rust. If you're building a 32-bit compiler,
# then replace "x86_64" below with "i686". If you've already got git, python,
# or CMake installed and in PATH you can remove them from this list. Note
# that it is important that you do **not** use the 'python2' and 'cmake'
# that it is important that you do **not** use the 'python2', 'cmake' and 'ninja'
# packages from the 'msys2' subsystem. The build has historically been known
# to fail with these packages.
$ pacman -S git \
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tar \
mingw-w64-x86_64-python \
mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake \
mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc \
mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja
```
4. Navigate to Rust's source code (or clone it), then build it:
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