MinGW
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MinGW ("Minimalist GNU for Windows"), formerly mingw32, is a free and open source software development environment to create Microsoft Windows applications.
Key facts
- Software.author
- Colin Peters
- Software.developer
- MinGW Project
- Software.screenshot
- MinGW installation manager.webp
- Software.caption
- MinGW installation manager
- Software.latest release version
- GNU BinUtils—2.32-1, Installation Manager—0.6.3, WSL—5.4.2
- Software.programming language
- C, C++
- Software.operating system
- Microsoft Windows, Unix-like (as a cross compiler)
- Software.genre
- Compiler
- Software.license
- Public domain (headers), GNU General Public License (compiler and toolchain)
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Fork
- Programming language support
- Link compatibility
- Components
- Comparison with Cygwin
- See also
- References
- External links
MinGW ("Minimalist GNU for Windows"), formerly mingw32, is a free and open source software development environment to create Microsoft Windows applications.
MinGW includes a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Binutils for Windows (assembler, linker, archive manager), a set of freely distributable Windows specific header files and static import libraries which enable the use of the Windows API, a Windows native build of the GNU Project's GNU Debugger, and miscellaneous utilities.
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