@josephshen found that the help text here has the wrong word, and I dropped the ball on his PR #2217 :-(
MacOSX Use the default compilers on MacOS X (Darwin)
MacOSX/GCC Use the GNU gcc/g++ compilers on MacOSX (Darwin)
MinGW Use the GNU gcc/g++ compilers on MinGW
- MSYS/MSVC Use the Microsoft Visual C++ computer on MSYS
+ MSYS/MSVC Use the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler on MSYS
QNX Use the QNX QCC compiler on QNX/Neutrino
Solaris Use the Sun cc/CC compilers on Solaris
Solaris/GCC Use the GNU gcc/g++ compilers on Solaris