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 6 has been released
v6.0.0: 2018-09-17
Notable changes:
- C++ __cxa_atexit thanks to Martin Storsjö and Liu Hao
- Massive additions to support UCRT thanks to Martin Storsjö
- Sync COM interface headers with Wine development thanks to Jacek Caban
- WinRT additions thanks to Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen
- ARM32 and ARM64 additions thanks to Martin Storsjö
- CRT library api-ms-win-core additions thanks to Martin Storsjö
- CRT library def file reorganization thanks to Martin Storsjö
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
22.03.2019
libd3dcompiler.a: Default to d3dcompiler_47.dll to match headers.
22.03.2019
Yes it has been reported here but apparently nobody has been working on it. Sorry for that.
22.03.2019
I have run into this issue just recently, so it is still a problem! I've done some investigation and it appears to be related to the use of std::condition_variable in "lib/Support/Parallel.cpp" of LLVM. In this file, there is a use of notify_one() which is called without the lock for the mutex used in the associated wait(). This is valid code according to the specification of std::condition_variable. However, the default MinGW libstdc++ runtine is built using POSIX threading and thus the std::condition_variable...
21.03.2019
Hi, This is kamal, I am new to Mingw. Was trying to cross compile a Hello.cpp application in Linux using below command, compilation goes success but while executing in window if fails with error mentioned: <cmd> mingw64/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ Hello.cpp -o Hello.exe</cmd> I copied the Hello.exe to Windows 10 and while executing it getting below error. Error: The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Please refere that attached file for details. Could any one please help me on...
21.03.2019
Getting execution error, while cross compiling Hello.cpp in Linux for window 64