mingw-w64

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:

Cygwin

ReactOS

Wine

Some Projects using Mingw-w64

Most Recent Activity

PB_ posted a comment on ticket #862
25.10.2020

Thanks for the quick fix!

Ozkan Sezer modified ticket #862
25.10.2020

Incorrect declaration for GetThemeSysFont()

Ozkan Sezer posted a comment on ticket #862
25.10.2020

Fix applied to master, and to branches down to v5.x https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mingw-w64/ci/12b5d1344c23c5fdba7fb2c771d0476c2220db16/

Ozkan Sezer committed [b7f51b]
25.10.2020