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 4.0 has been released
- 32bit ARM thumb software math (Thanks to André Hentschel!).
- New ftw() support for gcc-5.x support.
- Experimental printf changes - Ability to print 128bit integers (%I128*) and Decimal Floats (%H, %D), disabled by default. Build the CRT with —-enable-experimental to use.
- Updated OpenGL 4.5 headers.
- Better DirectX 11 support.
- Better Windows 7, 8/8.1 API support.
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
19.10.2019
This is no longer a bug. Where are you installing mingw from? Use msys2.
18.10.2019
include/{cfgmgr32,devpkey}.h: Add a missing `#include <devpropdef.h>`
17.10.2019
We are having the same issue here. Looking forward to see these patches included in a MinGW update.
14.10.2019
I would also like to continue using MinGW-w64 standalone builds for using GCC on Windows that I use for simulartaneously testing the Boost libraries using GCC and Clang (and MSVC of course) compilers on Windows. So I loudly join this plea for release of recent GCC releases, especially, for me, the most recent GCC 9 that contains important new constexpr code that provides vital improvements to the code that can be done at compile-time, making a massive run-time improvement (that is NO-time ;-) ) to...
10.10.2019
headers: _FORTIFY_SOURCE: Allow to limit level for individual functions.
10.10.2019
headers: _FORTIFY_SOURCE: Limit level for functions which work on raw memory.
10.10.2019
My attempts directly link MSVC lib was not successful. But it was many yars ago. So, I used this stuff to convert, and it worked. Later I linked Borland libs directly. How the things going on now, I dont know. lib fromats might be changed. You simply have to try. I'be back in this business in few weeks, so I can share fresh expirience. But likely it will be libs to link dlls.