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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 For instance, import libs are still mandatory (for outdated historical reasons), unlike Mingw-w64 where they're completely optional. 16.
cl.exe is the name of the executable that actually does the compiling (and linking) for MSVC, clang-cl is just the LLVM equivalent. g++ is GCC's C++ compiler executable. For all intents and purposes we're usually not differentiating between the name of the executable and the name of the compiler so nobody says MS-cl, everyone just says 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.
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.
Mingw-w64. Mingw-w64 is a free and open-source suite of development tools that generate Portable Executable (PE) binaries for Microsoft Windows. It was forked in 2005–2010 from MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows). Mingw-w64 includes a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Binutils for Windows (assembler, linker, archive manager), a ...
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MinGW ("Minimalist GNU for Windows"), formerly mingw32, is a free and open source software development environment to create Microsoft Windows applications.. MinGW includes a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Binutils for Windows (assembler, linker, archive manager), a set of freely distributable Windows specific header files and static import libraries which enable the use of the ...
