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I need to build a simple non-commercial tool (dealing with Windows GDI API) on Win64 for Win64 (no cross compilation). MinGW seems the best option for me.
I have already used the 32 bit version in the past, as for 64-bit, can you tell me the main differences between the following builds?:
Besides the classic MinGW32 used a straightforward tool, mingw-get.exe, to customise the setup and keep up with the updating cycle. Which is the equivalent now?
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GCC stands for GNU Compiler Collection — on open source collection of compilers for various languages based on a common core compiler and linker. MinGW stands for Minimal GNU for Windows. This is a copy GCC plus other common utilities and libraries used in compiling and linking C or C++ code using the GNU tools.
GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) is a free and open source compiler for C and C++ (and other languages like Objective-C, Fortran, D). MinGW-w64 is a free and open source C library for targetting Windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. The combination of these results in a free C/C++ compiler for Windows.
TDM-GCC is a compiler suite for Windows. It combines the most recent stable release of the GCC compiler, a few patches for Windows-friendliness, and the free and open-source MinGW.org or MinGW-w64 runtime APIs, to create a more lightweight open-source alternative to Microsoft's compiler and platform SDK.
MinGW-w64 is a improved version which supports both 32bit and 64bit, and some more of the WinAPI (still not all, because thats much work, but more than MinGW). MinGW-w64 only provides their source code, but no binaries to "just use" the compiler.
I've posted a short overview of MinGW / MinGW-w64 / TDM-GCC here: What is the difference between Orwell's MinGW and TDM Dev-C++ versions?
Which is the equivalent now?
It seems, there's no MinGW-W64 version of mingw-get; not sure if this is still valid. However, MinGW-w64 contains a nice installer.
Btw. MinGW-w64 is not just a "64 Bit port of MinGW" - it's more.
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This is a late answer, but I have this same question and I was looking for by many hours and this is what I found...
I think that this link can to expand our view of the differences that include every distro, although the recommendation summary is based in their UI framework library (Qt 5)...
http://qt-project.org/wiki/MinGW-64-bit
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