MinGW-w32 vs. MinGW

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user541686 picture user541686 · Apr 11, 2011 · Viewed 22.8k times · Source

What's the difference between the MinGW project and the 32-bit portion of the MinGW-w64 project? Does the 32-bit portion of MinGW-w64 have any relation to x64 at all?

It seems like their compilers do the exact same things...

Answer

KindDragon picture KindDragon · Oct 3, 2013

The MinGW from http://www.mingw.org/ does only support gcc 32 bit (host and target). The independent minGW-w64 project provides support for 64 bit, and also supports a much larger part of the Windows API. The MinGW-w64 project however does not provide official binary builds: These can be grabbed either from the personal build directories of the developers (the most popular being rubenvb), or from associated but independent projects like tdm-gcc or mingw-builds or msys2.

Source: http://wiki.qt.io/MinGW-64-bit

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