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Apr 11, 2011 · The MinGW from http://www.mingw.org/ does only support gcc 32 bit (host and target). The independent minGW-w64 project provides support for 64 bit, and also supports a much larger part of the Windows API.
May 12, 2021 · Specifically, the difference between MSYS (msys2.exe) and MINGW64 (mingw64.exe) is that MSYS has the Cygwin C standard library and MINGW64 has the MSVCRT (Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime) C standard library. The documentation says: "If you are unsure, go with UCRT64."
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).
Nov 11, 2021 · MinGW-W64 is the new generation of MinGW, which supports more APIs, 64-bit application development, and even 32-bit host compilation of 64-bit applications and the reverse “cross-compilation”. In addition, it has different versions for 32-bit and 64-bit, otherwise it is the same as MinGW.
Nov 5, 2015 · cygwin32-gcc-g++ is a compiler for 32 bit cygwin. gcc-g++ is the basic 64 bit compiler (you probably must install this one). mingw-gcc-g++ is a 32 bit compiler for native 32 bit Windows. mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++ is a 64 bit compiler for native 64 bit Windows.
Nov 24, 2020 · MinGW is basically a port of gcc (and a few other compilers) to Windows, along with a few utilities you typically use alongside gcc. It is focused on being an open replacement for compiling software for Windows.
Aug 17, 2012 · mingw-w64 is fork of the mingw project. Generally the mingw-w64 headers are much more complete, they include more recent additions from newer Windows (new SDK headers, function declarations, types, constants, macros), are ready for building 64-bit targets (when used with gcc capable of that).
