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href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Kai Tietz, Jonathan Yong, various <a href="/wiki/GNU" title="GNU">GNU</a> contributors</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">2005<span class="noprint">; 20 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2005</span>)</span></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">12.0.0 / May 29, 2024<span class="noprint">; 8 months ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2024-05-29</span>)</span></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Repository_(version_control)" title="Repository (version control)">Repository</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sf.net/p/mingw-w64/mingw-w64/">sf<wbr />.net<wbr />/p<wbr />/mingw-w64<wbr />/mingw-w64<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/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>, <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</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), <a href="/wiki/Zope_Public_License" title="Zope Public License">Zope Public License</a></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://mingw-w64.org">mingw-w64<wbr />.org</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Mingw-w64</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Free_and_open-source" class="mw-redirect" title="Free and open-source">free and open-source</a> suite of development tools that generate <a href="/wiki/Portable_Executable" title="Portable Executable">Portable Executable</a> (PE) binaries for <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>. It was <a href="/wiki/Fork_(software_development)" title="Fork (software development)">forked</a> in 2005–2010 from <a href="/wiki/MinGW" title="MinGW">MinGW</a> (<i>Minimalist GNU for Windows</i>). </p><p>Mingw-w64 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> for the <a href="/wiki/Windows_API" title="Windows API">Windows API</a>, a Windows-native version 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-w64 can be run natively on Microsoft Windows, cross-hosted on <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> (or other Unix), or "cross-native" on <a href="#MSYS2">MSYS2</a> or <a href="/wiki/Cygwin" title="Cygwin">Cygwin</a>. Mingw-w64 can generate 32-bit and 64-bit executables for x86 under the target names <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">i686-w64-mingw32</code> and <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">x86_64-w64-mingw32</code>. </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-w64&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2005, Mingw-w64 was created by OneVision Software under <a href="/wiki/Cleanroom_software_engineering" title="Cleanroom software engineering">cleanroom software engineering</a> principles, since the original MinGW project was not prompt on updating its code base, including the inclusion of several key new APIs and also much needed 64-bit support. In 2008, OneVision then donated the code to Kai Tietz, one of its lead developers, under the condition that it remains open source.<sup id="cite_ref-MinGW-w64_History_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MinGW-w64_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was first submitted to the original MinGW project, but refused under suspicion of using non-public or proprietary information.<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><sup id="cite_ref-MinGW-w64_History_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MinGW-w64_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><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> For many reasons, the lead developer and co-founder of the MinGW-w64 project, Kai Tietz, decided not to attempt further cooperation with MinGW.<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> </p><p>MinGW-w64 provides a more complete Win32 API implementation,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including: </p> <ul><li>Better <a href="/wiki/C99" title="C99">C99</a> support</li> <li><a href="/wiki/POSIX_Threads" class="mw-redirect" title="POSIX Threads">POSIX Threads</a> (pthreads) support (including the possibility to enable <a href="/wiki/C%2B%2B11" title="C++11">C++11</a> thread-related functionality in GCC's <a href="/wiki/Libstdc%2B%2B" class="mw-redirect" title="Libstdc++">libstdc++</a>)</li> <li>GCC multilib, which allows users to install 32-bit and 64-bit libraries in parallel</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unicode_in_Microsoft_Windows" title="Unicode in Microsoft Windows">Unicode</a> entry point (wmain/wWinMain)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windows_Driver_Kit" title="Windows Driver Kit">DDK</a> (from <a href="/wiki/ReactOS" title="ReactOS">ReactOS</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/DirectX" title="DirectX">DirectX</a> (from <a href="/wiki/Wine_(software)" title="Wine (software)">Wine</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Large_file_support" class="mw-redirect" title="Large file support">Large file support</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Win64" class="mw-redirect" title="Win64">Win64</a> support</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Structured_Exception_Handling" class="mw-redirect" title="Structured Exception Handling">Structured Exception Handling</a> (SEH) instead of <a href="/wiki/DWARF" title="DWARF">DWARF</a> or <a href="/wiki/Setjmp" class="mw-redirect" title="Setjmp">sjlj</a> on x86-64 (from gcc 4.8+)</li> <li>Some useful tools such as <code>gendef</code> (an improved version of MinGW's <code>pexports</code> utility), and <code>widl</code> (an <a href="/wiki/MIDL" class="mw-redirect" title="MIDL">MIDL</a> compiler from Wine).</li></ul> <p>Additionally, the Mingw-w64 project maintains winpthreads, a <a href="/wiki/Wrapper_library" title="Wrapper library">wrapper library</a> similar to pthreads-win32, with the main difference that it allows GCC to use it as a threads library resulting in functional C++11 thread libraries <code><thread></code>, <code><future></code>, and <code><mutex></code>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="MSYS2">MSYS2</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mingw-w64&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: MSYS2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>MSYS2 ("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. It plays the same role the old MSYS did in MinGW.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>MSYS2 shares this goal of bringing Unix code to Windows machines with several other projects, most notably <a href="/wiki/Cygwin" title="Cygwin">Cygwin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux" title="Windows Subsystem for Linux">Windows Subsystem for Linux</a> (WSL). WSL lets Linux <a href="/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format" title="Executable and Linkable Format">ELF</a> binaries run on Windows through a managed <a href="/wiki/Virtual_Machine" class="mw-redirect" title="Virtual Machine">Virtual Machine</a>. Cygwin provides a full <a href="/wiki/POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX</a> environment (as a windows <a href="/wiki/Dynamic-link_library" title="Dynamic-link library">DLL</a>) in which applications, compiled as Windows EXEs, run as they would under Unix.<sup id="cite_ref-zsh_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zsh-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Instead of providing a full environment like Cygwin does, MSYS2 tasks itself with being a development and deployment platform.<sup id="cite_ref-diff_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-diff-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>There is a main MSYS2 environment (similar to, and in fact derived from, Cygwin's emulation code) with package manager and standard Unix system tool. This way, when managing MSYS2 itself, standard Unix tools can be used unmodified by using the emulated environment. It's also possible to install build tools in the MSYS2 emulated environment in case the user wants to build software that depends on the POSIX emulation layer instead of the native API.</li> <li>In addition, four environments are provided containing native compilers, build tools and libraries that can be directly used to build native Windows 32-bit or 64-bit programs. The final programs built with the two native environments don't use any kind of emulation and can run or be distributed like native Windows programs. The environments are MINGW64 and MINGW32 (the original MinGW-w64 environments using gcc, msvcrt, and libstdc++), UCRT64 (adaptation of MINGW64 to ucrt), and CLANG64 (adaptation of UCRT64 to clang and libc++). While Cygwin also provides MinGW-w64 compilers and libraries, the set of available libraries is smaller, and they are not as easily managed due to not being placed in separate prefixes.</li></ul> <p>The main MSYS2 environment provides a <a href="/wiki/Package_manager" title="Package manager">package manager</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pacman_(Arch_Linux)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacman (Arch Linux)"><i>Pacman</i></a> from <a href="/wiki/Arch_Linux" title="Arch Linux">Arch Linux</a>), a <a href="/wiki/Bash_shell" class="mw-redirect" title="Bash shell">bash shell</a>, and other <a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a> programs. It uses a runtime library <i>msys-2.0.dll</i> (~20MB) that is derived from the Cygwin library <i>cygwin1.dll</i>, and is updated regularly to keep track of the Cygwin development. It is intended as a development environment, one that developers can manage (using pacman) and run their tools with. Features judged unnecessary for development are removed.<sup id="cite_ref-diff_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-diff-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As with Cygwin, MSYS2 supports path translation for non-MSYS2 software launched from it. For example one can use the command <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">notepad++ /c/Users/John/file.txt</code> to launch an editor that will open the file with the Windows path <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">C:\Users\John\file.txt</code>.<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><sup id="cite_ref-diff_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-diff-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>MSYS2 and its bash environment is used by <a href="/wiki/Git" title="Git">Git</a> and <a href="/wiki/GNU_Octave" title="GNU Octave">GNU Octave</a> for their official Windows distribution. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Compiler">Compiler</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mingw-w64&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Compiler"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Most languages supported by GCC are supported on the Mingw-w64 port as well. These include C, <a href="/wiki/C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a>, <a href="/wiki/Objective-C" title="Objective-C">Objective-C</a>, Objective-C++, <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.). A packaging of <a href="/wiki/LLVM" title="LLVM">LLVM</a>'s clang to mingw-w64 is also provided by MSYS2. It supports ARM for Windows (<code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">aarch64-w64-mingw32</code> and <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">armv7-w64-mingw32</code>).<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><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><p>Binaries (executables or DLLs) generated with different C++ compilers (like Mingw-w64 GCC and Visual Studio) are in general not link compatible due to the use of different <a href="/wiki/Application_Binary_Interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Application Binary Interface">ABIs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Name_mangling" title="Name mangling">name mangling</a> schemes caused by the differences in C++ runtimes. However, compiled C code is link compatible.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Clang is an exception, as it mostly supports MSVC's C++ ABI on Windows.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Binutils" class="mw-redirect" title="Binutils">binutils</a> documentation has up-to-date information about its handling of various windows-specific formats and special tools for doing so.<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><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> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-02-18</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=MinGW-w64+Wiki&rft.atitle=%28MinGW-w64%29+History&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fp%2Fmingw-w64%2Fwiki2%2FHistory%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMingw-w64" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDanny_Smith2007" class="citation newsgroup cs1">Danny Smith (13 August 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/mailman/message/10664140/">"Re: Sub project for w64 header & crt"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup" title="Usenet newsgroup">Newsgroup</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="news:comp.gnu.mingw.devel">comp.gnu.mingw.devel</a>. <a href="/wiki/Usenet_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Usenet (identifier)">Usenet:</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="news:000001c7dd83$9ae74310$fe6d65da@THOMAS">000001c7dd83$9ae74310$fe6d65da@THOMAS</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200723002935/https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/mailman/message/10664140/">Archived</a> from the original on 23 July 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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