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 7 has been released

v7.0.0: 2019-11-10

Notable changes:

_FORTIFY_SOURCE support thanks to Christian Franke.
Lots of math fixes from Martin Storsjö.
Many headers updated from Wine by Jacek Caban.
UCRT support by Martin Storsjö.

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

Zufu Liu posted a comment on ticket #842
29.05.2020

msys2 issue https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/6530 the broken package is mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-git-8.0.0.5904.1278c953-1 revert back to mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-git-8.0.0.5814.9dbf4cc1-1 link with -static works.

Zufu Liu posted a comment on ticket #842
29.05.2020

FLAGS is missing in above build command. @echo off SET "DEFINES=-D_WINDOWS -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE -DNDEBUG -D_WIN64 -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0502 -DWINVER=0x0502" SET "FLAGS=-municode -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wformat=2 -O2 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" SET "CFLAGS=-std=gnu11 %FLAGS% %DEFINES%" SET "CXXFLAGS=-std=gnu++17 -fno-rtti %FLAGS% %DEFINES%" SET "LDLIBS=-lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lcomctl32 -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -lshlwapi -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid -luxtheme -lpsapi"...

Zufu Liu created ticket #842
29.05.2020

linker errors caused by mbrtowc.c and wcrtomb.c

Henry Arthur Garcia created ticket #841
28.05.2020

gcc 11.0 git build fails

OJ Reeves created ticket #840
27.05.2020

Obscure issue compiling/linking Windows binaries on Linux

oset jan modified a comment on discussion Help
26.05.2020

Thanks for advice. I have tested it and it works. Not a perfect solution but works. Unluckily '-fleading-underscore' indeed doesn't work. And when comes to dll, thank you as well but it's just 1.6k of code. It meant to be included.

oset jan posted a comment on discussion Help
26.05.2020

Thanks for advice. I have tested it and it works. Not a perfect solution but works. And when comes to dll, thank you as well but it's just 1.6k of code. It meant to be included.

NightStrike posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
25.05.2020

You should probably include more project details and proposed payout. For reference, good software engineers cost several hundred dollars per hour. On Fri, May 22, 2020, 5:50 PM Panos panos@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Hi, We are looking to port our code to Windows and we have limited experience with MinGW. We are looking for somebody to work on this on a project basis. Email me at panos@netbeez.net MinGW Contractor Needed https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/discussion/723797/thread/db06be2e79/?limit=25#78af...

LH_Mouse committed [3310d4]
25.05.2020

headers/ntdef.h: add missing symbols from reactos

Kai Tietz posted a comment on discussion Help
25.05.2020

Hello, well, you can build shared libraries exporting symbols without the 32-bit ABI's leading underscore ... see here for reference the ld tool's option for more detail. Nevertheless the import-library for such a shared object (DLL) will contain the leading underscores. You will need to use a definition file to create it, or you can link directly to the DLL ... if you have headers, which properly define the export's calling-convetion. Hope that helps Kai Am So., 24. Mai 2020 um 18:18 Uhr schrieb...

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