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class="external text" href="http://osdn.net/projects/mingw/scm/">osdn<wbr />.net<wbr />/projects<wbr />/mingw<wbr />/scm<wbr />/</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Written in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a>, <a href="/wiki/C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>, <a href="/wiki/Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a> (as a <a href="/wiki/Cross_compiler" title="Cross compiler">cross compiler</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Compiler" title="Compiler">Compiler</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">Public domain</a> (headers), <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GNU General Public License</a> (compiler and toolchain)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://osdn.net/projects/mingw">osdn<wbr />.net<wbr />/projects<wbr />/mingw</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>MinGW</b> ("Minimalist GNU for Windows"), formerly <b>mingw32</b>, is a <a href="/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software" title="Free and open-source software">free and open source</a> <a href="/wiki/Software_development" title="Software development">software development</a> environment to create <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a> applications. </p><p>MinGW includes a <a href="/wiki/Porting" title="Porting">port</a> of the <a href="/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection" title="GNU Compiler Collection">GNU Compiler Collection</a> (GCC), <a href="/wiki/GNU_Binutils" title="GNU Binutils">GNU Binutils</a> for Windows (<a href="/wiki/Assembler_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Assembler (computing)">assembler</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linker_(computing)" title="Linker (computing)">linker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archive_file" title="Archive file">archive manager</a>), a set of freely distributable Windows specific <a href="/wiki/Header_file" class="mw-redirect" title="Header file">header files</a> and <a href="/wiki/Static_library" title="Static library">static import libraries</a> which enable the use of the <a href="/wiki/Windows_API" title="Windows API">Windows API</a>, a Windows native build of the <a href="/wiki/GNU_Project" title="GNU Project">GNU Project</a>'s <a href="/wiki/GNU_Debugger" title="GNU Debugger">GNU Debugger</a>, and miscellaneous utilities. </p><p>MinGW does not rely on <a href="/wiki/Third-party_software_component" title="Third-party software component">third-party</a> <a href="/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a> <a href="/wiki/Runtime_library" title="Runtime library">runtime</a> <a href="/wiki/Dynamic-link_library" title="Dynamic-link library">dynamic-link library</a> (DLL) files, and because the runtime libraries are not distributed using the <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GNU General Public License</a> (GPL), it is not necessary to distribute the <a href="/wiki/Source_code" title="Source code">source code</a> with the programs produced, unless a GPL library is used elsewhere in the program.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>MinGW can be run either on the native Microsoft Windows platform, cross-hosted on <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> (or other Unix), or "cross-native" on <a href="/wiki/Cygwin" title="Cygwin">Cygwin</a>. Although programs produced under MinGW are 32-bit executables, they can be used both in 32 and 64-bit versions of Windows. </p><p>The development of the MinGW project has been <a href="/wiki/Software_forking" class="mw-redirect" title="Software forking">forked</a> with the creation in 2005–2008 of an alternative project called <a href="/wiki/Mingw-w64" title="Mingw-w64">Mingw-w64</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MinGW&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>MinGW was originally called mingw32 ("Minimalist GNU for W32"), following the GNU convention whereby Windows is shortened as "W32".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The numbers were dropped in order to avoid the implication that it would be limited to producing <a href="/wiki/32-bit_application" class="mw-redirect" title="32-bit application">32-bit binaries</a>. Colin Peters authored the initial release in 1998, consisting only of a Cygwin port of GCC.<sup id="cite_ref-history_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-potm_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-potm-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jan-Jaap van der Heijden created a Windows-native port of GCC and added <a href="/wiki/Binutils" class="mw-redirect" title="Binutils">binutils</a> and <a href="/wiki/Make_(software)" title="Make (software)">make</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-history_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-potm_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-potm-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mumit Khan later took over development, adding more Windows-specific features to the package, including the Windows system headers by Anders Norlander.<sup id="cite_ref-history_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-potm_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-potm-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2000, the project was moved to <a href="/wiki/SourceForge" title="SourceForge">SourceForge</a> in order to solicit more assistance from the community and centralize its development.<sup id="cite_ref-history_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-potm_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-potm-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>MinGW was selected as Project of the Month at SourceForge for September 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-potm_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-potm-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>MSYS (a contraction of "Minimal System") was introduced as a <a href="/wiki/Bourne_shell" title="Bourne shell">Bourne shell</a> command line interpreter system<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software. </p><p>In 2018, following a disagreement with SourceForge about the administration of its mailing lists, MinGW migrated to <a href="/wiki/OSDN" title="OSDN">OSDN</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fork">Fork</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MinGW&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Fork"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2007, a fork of the original MinGW called <a href="/wiki/Mingw-w64" title="Mingw-w64">Mingw-w64</a> appeared in order to provide support for 64 bits and new APIs. It has since then gained widespread use and distribution. <a href="/wiki/MSYS2" class="mw-redirect" title="MSYS2">MSYS2</a> ("minimal system 2") is a software distribution and a development platform for <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>, based on Mingw-w64 and <a href="/wiki/Cygwin" title="Cygwin">Cygwin</a>, that helps to deploy code from the <a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a> world on Windows.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Programming_language_support">Programming language support</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MinGW&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Programming language support"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Most languages supported by GCC are supported on the MinGW port as well. These include <a href="/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a>, <a href="/wiki/C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a>, <a href="/wiki/Objective-C" title="Objective-C">Objective-C</a>, <a href="/wiki/Objective-C%2B%2B" class="mw-redirect" title="Objective-C++">Objective-C++</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fortran" title="Fortran">Fortran</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)" title="Ada (programming language)">Ada</a>. The GCC runtime libraries are used (libstdc++ for C++, libgfortran for Fortran, etc.).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>MinGW links by default to the Windows OS component library <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_library_files#MSVCRT.DLL_and_MSVCPP.DLL" title="Microsoft Windows library files">MSVCRT</a>, which is the C library that <a href="/wiki/Visual_C%2B%2B" class="mw-redirect" title="Visual C++">Visual C++</a> version 6.0 linked to (the initial target was CRTDLL), which was released in 1998 and therefore does not include support for <a href="/wiki/C99" title="C99">C99</a> features, or even all of <a href="/wiki/ANSI_C" title="ANSI C">C89</a>. While targeting MSVCRT yields programs that require no additional runtime redistributables to be installed, the lack of support for C99 has caused porting problems, particularly where <a href="/wiki/Printf" title="Printf">printf</a>-style conversion specifiers are concerned. These issues have been partially mitigated by the implementation of a C99 compatibility library, <i>libmingwex</i>, but the extensive work required is far from complete and may never be fully realized.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Mingw-w64" title="Mingw-w64">Mingw-w64</a> has resolved these issues, and provides fully POSIX compliant printf functionality. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Link_compatibility">Link compatibility</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MinGW&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Link compatibility"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Binaries (executables or DLLs) generated with different C++ compilers (like MinGW and Visual Studio) are in general not link compatible. However, compiled C code is link compatible.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Components">Components</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MinGW&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Components"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The MinGW project maintains and distributes a number of different core components and supplementary packages, including various ports of the <a href="/wiki/GNU_toolchain" title="GNU toolchain">GNU toolchain</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection" title="GNU Compiler Collection">GCC</a> and <a href="/wiki/Binutils" class="mw-redirect" title="Binutils">binutils</a>, translated into equivalent packages.<sup id="cite_ref-FAQ-What_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FAQ-What-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MinGWComponents_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MinGWComponents-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These utilities can be used from the <a href="/wiki/Windows_command_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows command line">Windows command line</a> or integrated into an <a href="/wiki/Integrated_development_environment" title="Integrated development environment">IDE</a>. Packages may be installed using the command line via mingw-get.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>MinGW supports dynamic libraries named according to the <code><name>.lib</code> and <code><name>.dll</code> conventions, as well as static libraries following the <code>lib<name>.a</code> naming convention common on Unix and Unix-like systems. </p><p>In addition, a component of MinGW known as <i>MSYS</i> (<i>minimal system</i>) provides Windows ports of a lightweight Unix-like <a href="/wiki/Shell_(computer_science)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shell (computer science)">shell</a> environment including <a href="/wiki/Rxvt" title="Rxvt">rxvt</a> and a selection of <a href="/wiki/POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX</a> tools sufficient to enable <a href="/wiki/Autoconf" title="Autoconf">autoconf</a> scripts to run,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but it does not provide a C compiler or a <a href="/wiki/Case_sensitivity#In_filesystems" title="Case sensitivity">case-sensitive file system</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>mingwPORTs</i> are user contributed additions to the MinGW software collection. Rather than providing these "add-ons" as precompiled binary packages, they are supplied in the form of interactive <a href="/wiki/Bourne_shell" title="Bourne shell">Bourne shell</a> scripts, which guide the end user through the process of automatically downloading and patching original source code, then building and installing it. Users who wish to build any application from a mingwPORT must first install both MinGW and MSYS.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The implementation of Windows system headers and static import libraries are released under a <a href="/wiki/Permissive_license" class="mw-redirect" title="Permissive license">permissive license</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-w32api_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-w32api-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while the GNU ports are provided under the <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GNU General Public License</a>. Binary downloads of both the complete MSYS package and individual MinGW GNU utilities are available from the MinGW site. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Comparison_with_Cygwin">Comparison with Cygwin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MinGW&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Comparison with Cygwin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although both Cygwin and MinGW can be used to port Unix software to Windows, they have different approaches:<sup id="cite_ref-differencesCygwinMinGW_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-differencesCygwinMinGW-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cygwin aims to provide a complete <a href="/wiki/POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX</a> layer comprising a full implementation of all major Unix system calls and libraries. Compatibility is considered a higher priority than performance. On the other hand, MinGW's priorities are simplicity and performance. As such, it does not provide certain <a href="/wiki/POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX</a> APIs which cannot easily be implemented using the Windows API, such as <code><a href="/wiki/Fork_(operating_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fork (operating system)">fork()</a></code>, <code><a href="/wiki/Mmap" title="Mmap">mmap()</a></code> and <code><a href="/wiki/Ioctl" title="Ioctl">ioctl()</a></code>.<sup id="cite_ref-differencesCygwinMinGW_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-differencesCygwinMinGW-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Applications written using a <a href="/wiki/Cross-platform" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross-platform">cross-platform</a> library that has itself been ported to MinGW, such as <a href="/wiki/Simple_DirectMedia_Layer" title="Simple DirectMedia Layer">SDL</a>, <a href="/wiki/WxWidgets" title="WxWidgets">wxWidgets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Qt_(toolkit)" class="mw-redirect" title="Qt (toolkit)">Qt</a>, or <a href="/wiki/GTK" title="GTK">GTK</a>, will usually compile as easily in MinGW as they would in Cygwin. </p><p>Windows programs written with Cygwin run on top of a <a href="/wiki/Copyleft" title="Copyleft">copylefted</a> compatibility <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Dynamic_Link_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft Dynamic Link Library">DLL</a> that must be distributed with the program, unless statically linked. 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