MinGW is a complete GCC toolchain (including half a dozen frontends, such as C, C++, Ada, Go, and whatnot) for the Windows platform which compiles for and links to the Windows OS component C Runtime Library in msvcrt.dll.

@jww MinGW-w64 is a hard fork of MinGW, because MinGW didn't do a great job. Pretty much everyone uses MinGW-w64 these days, not the original MinGW. Same with MSYS2 and MSYS.

2014年8月30日 · MinGW-w64 only provides their source code, but no binaries to "just use" the compiler. MinGW-builds is a somewhat separate project to provide binaries in the most useful configurations. To get a specialized build of MinGW-w64, manual compiling is still possible. Using the MinGW-builds self-installer is the easiest way, if nothing unusual is needed.

2014年1月12日 · I used Mingw_get_inst and installed the MinGW compiler suite following the instructions on the howto page. I used the GUI installer. I then changed the path to include C:\MingW; . When I go to Start menu -> all programs -> MingW the only file that exists inside of there is a uninstaller.

2009年4月21日 · What is MinGW? MinGW is a distribution of the GNU compiler tools for native Windows, including the GNU Compiler Collection, GNU Binutils and GNU Debugger. Also included are header files and libraries allowing development of native Windows applications. This therefore will act as an open source alternative to the Microsoft Visual C++ suite.

2020年4月29日 · Install Essential Development Tools and MinGW-w64 Toolchain: Run the following command to install the necessary packages: pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-toolchain just to let you know the --needed option ensures that only outdated or missing packages are installed.

2012年5月19日 · I once had this kind of problem installing MinGW to work in Windows, even after I added the right System PATH in my Environment Variables. After days of misery, I finally stumbled on a thread that recommended uninstalling the original MinGW compiler and deleting the C:\MinGW folder and installing TDM-GCC MinGW compiler which can be found here.

2023年8月2日 · MinGW stands for "Minimalist GNU for Windows" It is essentially a tool set that includes some GNU software, including a port of GCC. In summary, MinGW contains GCC which is in the collection of GNU free software.

2012年3月26日 · The MinGW-builds project provides a package similar to MinGW but with an updated GCC (4.7.2). I extracted the files to c:\MinGW (so I could use the same path) after moving my existing MinGW to another folder. Only MinGW has MSYS, so if you need that (I did) copy the msys folder from the original MinGW.

In Windows, using mingw's gcc, is there anyway to specify that the output exe file is to take an icon file, so that the exe file shows with that icon in explorer?