GCC for Windows 64 & 32 bits
Mingw-w64 is an advancement of the original mingw.org project, created to support the GCC compiler on Windows systems. It has forked it in 2007 in order to provide support for 64 bits and new APIs. It has since then gained widespread use and distribution.
The development and community are very active and welcoming with new contributors every month and simple installers.
v6.0.0: 2018-09-17
Notable changes:
You can also look at the full list of versions.
Mingw-w64 interacts a lot with other projects in order to help everyone move forward. Contributions have been going to and coming from these projects:
We are having the same issue here. Looking forward to see these patches included in a MinGW update.
I would also like to continue using MinGW-w64 standalone builds for using GCC on Windows that I use for simulartaneously testing the Boost libraries using GCC and Clang (and MSVC of course) compilers on Windows. So I loudly join this plea for release of recent GCC releases, especially, for me, the most recent GCC 9 that contains important new constexpr code that provides vital improvements to the code that can be done at compile-time, making a massive run-time improvement (that is NO-time ;-) ) to...
headers: _FORTIFY_SOURCE: Allow to limit level for individual functions.
headers: _FORTIFY_SOURCE: Limit level for functions which work on raw memory.
My attempts directly link MSVC lib was not successful. But it was many yars ago. So, I used this stuff to convert, and it worked. Later I linked Borland libs directly. How the things going on now, I dont know. lib fromats might be changed. You simply have to try. I'be back in this business in few weeks, so I can share fresh expirience. But likely it will be libs to link dlls.
Well, having to link to sources outside MinGW64 are exactly my point :-). By the way, I thought MinGW and MinGW64 will be different in this reagrd. By the way, can I use Static Library created with MSVC on a project compiled with GCC on MinGW64? Or must I then use this Object File Converter from Agner Fog?
I tried it many years ago (may be with gcc 4). Obviously with something simple, not with C runtime. Fact that MinGW links do msvcrt.dll is very common knowledge: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28783079/mingw-and-msvcrt-dll-confusion https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140411-00/?p=1273 and may others...
Is there a guide what should I do? Namely from what format to any other format? Has anyone tried it? By the way, It shoudl be documented somewhere that MinGW64 basically links to the Dynamic Libraray of MSVCRT.
Likely it will be hardcore violation of the license, copyrights, etc. There https://www.agner.org/optimize/?e=0,34 is util, "Object file converter" you can try. But this idea- to link MS VC runtime statically - looks not good.
