- Alex Henrie
- Biswapriyo Nath
- Eric Hassold
- Jacek Caban
- Jehan Pagès
- Kleis Auke Wolthuizen
- Liu Hao
- Martin Mitáš
- Martin Storsjö
- Nikolay Sivov
- Noah Treuhaft
- Pali Rohár
- Ruslan Garipov
- Sanketh Menda
- sezero
- Stephan Ruloff
- Stephen Kitt
- Steve Lhomme
- Tom Ritter
- xtne6f
- Zebediah Figura
- 屈佳伟
mingw-w64
GCC for Windows 64 & 32 bits
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Mingw-w64
Mingw-w64 is an advancement of the original mingw.org project, created to support the GCC compiler on Windows systems. It has forked it in 2007 in order to provide support for 64 bits and new APIs. It has since then gained widespread use and distribution.
The development and community are very active and welcoming with new contributors every month and simple installers.
Version 8 has been released
v8.0.0: 2020-09-18
Notable changes:
- New Hyper-V headers and libraries by Biswapriyo Nath
- Many headers updated from Wine by Jacek Caban.
- ARM math improvements by Martin Storsjö
- floating point fixes by Liu Hao
- many *printf compatibility fixes by Liu Hao and Martin Storsjö
- massive Windows App Store API updates by Steve Lhomme
- winstorecompat library updates by Martin Storsjö
- __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO now automatically enabled in C99 and C11 mode when not using UCRT by Pali Rohár
- wdm and ddk updates by Zebediah Figura
- UCRT for Windows Store Apps (-lucrtapp) by Martin Storsjö
- Audioclient and ActivateAudioInterfaceAsync API updates by Liu Hao
- DirectX SDKs are now always installed
And many other additions thanks to, but not limited to (in Alphabetical order)
You can also look at the full list of versions.
Headers, Libraries and Runtime
- More than a million lines of headers are provided, not counting generated ones, and regularly expanded to track new Windows APIs.
- Everything needed for linking and running your code on Windows.
- Winpthreads, a pthreads library for C++11 threading support and simple integration with existing project.
- Winstorecompat, a work-in-progress convenience library that eases conformance with the Windows Store.
- Better-conforming and faster math support compared to Visual Studio's.
Tools
- gendef: generate Visual Studio .def files from .dll files.
- genidl: generate .idl files from .dll files.
- widl: compile .idl files.
Friend projects
Mingw-w64 interacts a lot with other projects in order to help everyone move forward. Contributions have been going to and coming from these projects:
Some Projects using Mingw-w64
Most Recent Activity
LH_Mouse committed [172511]
13.10.2020
13.10.2020
winpthreads: Add pthread_attr_getstack and pthread_attr_setstack.
Stephen Peter posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
12.10.2020
12.10.2020
One slightly off topic suggestion would be https://www.onlinegdb.com/online_c_compiler as the url says it is an online compiler. It could be useful to inform the students about it (for simple testing etc); even if you consider it inappropriate as your primary tool. Disclaimer: I have no connection with these folks. :) cheers S.