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How to use MinGW-w64 with Cygwin?

MinGW-w64 has been available with Cygwin at least since December 2010. However I am having hard time using this to compile …

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Difference between Win-builds vs MinGW-builds

Does anybody know the difference between Win-builds and MinGW-builds? I'm really interested in C++11 (14) compiler for Windows, but unfortunately MSVC …

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Can't download MinGW from Sourceforge

I wanted download MinGW C and C++ gnu compiler from Sourceforge using mingw-get-inst-20120421.exe. It gives me an option to …

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MSYS vs. MinGW: internal environment variables

MSYS2 default shell (bash) can be started choosing among three launchers, which also set the environment variable MSYSTEM. Specifically: msys2_…

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How to obtain older versions of packages using MSYS2?

I decided to try CLion for Windows, which recommends either MinGW or Cygwin for compilation. I installed the MSYS2 package …

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Using msysGit from MinGW and vice versa

I am using git as my revision control system. To do so, I installed msysGit to checkout my repositories on …

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Getting std::thread/mutex to work under Win7 with mingw and g++ 4.7.2

Greetings, I've recently moved out of my unix shelter to test a supposedly cross-platform networking library only to discover that …

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MinGW + Boost: undefined reference to `WSAStartup@8'

below is what I execute D:\Just4Fun\software\>make -f Makefile.hands stest g++.exe -g -D_WIN32_…

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Why is the maximum size of an array "too large"?

I'm under the same impression as this answer, that size_t is always guaranteed by the standard to be large …

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Embedding binary blobs using gcc mingw

I am trying to embed binary blobs into an exe file. I am using mingw gcc. I make the object …

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