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Some software only supports MSVC on Windows (e.g. CPython, including native modules) so you may have to use it. The only advantage is that you get a statically-linked CRT — versus linking against an old msvcrt.dll per Mingw-w64 — though historically Microsoft's UCRT has been kind of buggy, and those bugs then get baked into your binaries.
Nov 7, 2011 · MSVC has the huge advantage of coming with an IDE that has no equals under Windows, including debugger support. The probably best alternative for MinGW would be Code::Blocks, but there are worlds in between, especially regarding code completion and the debugger.
Jul 27, 2024 · I'm making a 64bit based application for my small commercial, but it's better to use MinGW64 or MSVC2019 64 bit, what are the advantages and disadvantages of these two? I'm using dynamic not static applications. When I use MSVC on several laptops/computers, it requires vc_redistx64.
Apr 22, 2016 · MSVC is doing the compilation job significantly faster than MinGW-w64. The DLL sizes are comparable, if optimization is set to "-O2" for MinGW-w64, with "-O3" the DLLs from MinGW-w64 are larger. Binary files compiled with MinGW-w64 are performing significantly better than those compiled with MSVC.
MSVC is doing the compilation job significantly faster than MinGW-w64. The DLL sizes are comparable, if optimization is set to "-O2" for MinGW-w64, with "-O3" the DLLs from MinGW-w64 are larger. Binary files compiled with MinGW-w64 are performing significantly better than those compiled with MSVC.
Nov 25, 2014 · Initially I ran into some issues with x64 and certain functions (std::stoi, std::to_string) as well as support for certain exception models. If I understand correctly the mingw project is a bit slow and got forked and mingw-w64 has become the sensible choice, solving most of those problems.
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Mar 1, 2023 · all the modern windows toolchains use msvc standard C libraries, even the mingw ones. That's why msys2 offers both ucrt and msvcrt variants of mingw-w64-gcc and mingw-w64-clang. They do use their own C++ standard library implementations though (not sure about the Clang that ships with Visual Studio though)
