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 9 has been released

v9.0.0: 2021-05-22

Notable changes:

UCRT updates by Biswapriyo Nath
Wine updates by Jacek Caban
Various new and updated API headers by Biswapriyo Nath and Liu Hao
Various UCRT and MSVCRT fixes by Martin Storsjö
at_quick_exit implementation by Martin Storsjö
dism API by Biswapriyo Nath
idl fixes by Steve Lhomme
Winpthreads fixes by Liu Hao
gettimeofday precision increase by Christian Franke

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: