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MinGW, a contraction of “Minimalist GNU for Windows”, is a minimalist development environment for native Microsoft Windows applications.

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MinGW, a contraction of “Minimalist GNU for Windows”, is a minimalist development environment for native Microsoft Windows applications.

MinGW is a registered trademark of Software in the Public Interest Inc., registration number 86017856; it has been registered on behalf of MinGW.OSDN, and its use by any other project is unauthorized.

MinGW provides a complete Open Source programming tool set which is suitable for the development of native MS-Windows applications, and which do not depend on any 3rd‑party C‑Runtime DLLs. (It does depend on a number of DLLs provided by Microsoft themselves, as components of the operating system; most notable among these is MSVCRT.DLL, the Microsoft C runtime library. Additionally, threaded applications must ship with a freely distributable thread support DLL, provided as part of MinGW itself).

MinGW compilers provide access to the functionality of the Microsoft C runtime and some language‑specific runtimes. MinGW, being Minimalist, does not, and never will, attempt to provide a full POSIX runtime environment for POSIX application deployment on MS‑Windows. If you want POSIX application deployment on this platform, please consider Cygwin instead.

Primarily intended for use by developers working on the native MS‑Windows platform, but also available for cross‑hosted use, (see note below), MinGW includes:—

    A port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), including C, C++, ADA and Fortran compilers;
    GNU Binutils for Windows (assembler, linker, archive manager)
    A command‑line installer, with optional GUI front‑end, (mingw‑get) for MinGW and MSYS deployment on MS‑Windows
    A GUI first‑time setup tool (mingw‑get‑setup), to get you up and running with mingw‑get.

MSYS, a contraction of “Minimal SYStem”, is a Bourne Shell command line interpreter system. Offered as an alternative to Microsoft’s cmd.exe, this provides a general purpose command line environment, which is particularly suited to use with MinGW, for porting of many Open Source applications to the MS‑Windows platform; a light‑weight fork of Cygwin‑1.3, it includes a small selection of Unix tools, chosen to facilitate that objective.

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https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/

 

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