Mingw-w64

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Mingw-w64
Basic data

developer Kai Tietz and team
Current  version 7.0.0
(Nov 10, 2019)
operating system Windows , Linux ( Arch Linux , Debian , Fedora , Ubuntu ), Mac OS X
category Compiler
License Public Domain , GNU Lesser General Public License v2, Zope Public License
German speaking No
mingw-w64.org

Mingw-w64 (or Mingw64 ) is a port of the development tools GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and GNU Debugger (GDB) for Windows. It is to be distinguished from the competing MinGW project . Mingw64 was created between 2005 and 2008, partly through a clean room re-implementation, partly as a fork of Mingw.

Mingw-w64 contains a collection of Windows header files ( Windows API ) for native Windows development. It is often used in combination with MSYS2 . In Windows, this provides a Unix-like shell in which configure scripts can be started, among other things . There is also a version available as a cross-compiler , with which you can create programs for Windows and vice versa under Linux .

Mingw-w64 on Windows supports the programming languages Fortran , C and C ++ . Additional languages ​​are supported by cross-compilation from Linux: Ada , Objective-C and OCaml .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php , as of January 2020
  2. https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64 , as of January 2020
  3. https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/wiki2/History
  4. http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php/download , as of January 2020