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7. Let's put like this: We are going to create a library that needs to be cross platform and we choose GCC as compiler, it works awesomely on Linux and we need to compile it on Windows and we have the MinGW to do the work. MinGW tries to implement a native way to compile C++ on Windows but it doesn't support some features like mutex and threads.
MSVC code generation quality is almost on par with GCC and Clang. It doesn't quite support C99 and probably never will. The toolchain is not nearly as powerful or flexible as Mingw-w64. For instance, import libs are still mandatory (for outdated historical reasons), unlike Mingw-w64 where they're completely optional. 16.
The default standard library (libstdc++) has better C++20 and C++23 support than Clang's (libc++) but not as good as Visual C++. Developing Windows applications with GCC (mingw-GCC) generally means shipping extra DLLs with your program, for the standard library. It can be avoided, but not without massive headache. Clang: LLVM's C language compiler.
As far as I'm aware 64-bit versions of g++ only use a scheme based on SEH, Windows' own low level exception handling, so the differences are mainly of historic interest. Well, unless you have to use a 32-bit version, in which case go for SJLJ as most generally safe, though not fastest. 4. Reply. Award.
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.
Apr 22, 2016 · Hello, I have made my own measurements (on current master), comparing Visual Studio 2010 and 2017 and MinGw-w64 (build 4.3.3 with GCC 7.1.0). It should be noted that MinGw-w64 can be built with several options; among them one that defines exception model has severe impact on both performance and ability to catch software signals (such as access violations).
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Apr 21, 2009 · In terms of the code generated by the two, the Cygwin toolchain relies on dynamic linking to a large runtime library, cygwin1.dll, while the MinGW toolchain compiles code to binaries that link dynamically to the Windows native C library msvcrt.dll as well as statically to parts of glibc.
