Originally by Carl Kleffner.

Mingw-w64 is an alternative to the mingw.org project - see:http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/History

• 32- AND 64-bit support
• large file support
• winpthread pthreads implementation, MIT licenced.
• cross compiler toolchains available for Linux

Source releases of the mingw-64 repository-http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-release/

Official builds are available from the mingw-builds project athttp://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/download.php#mingw-builds for example:

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/4.8.2/threads-posix/seh/
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/4.8.2/threads-posix/dwarf/

These are common combinations of exception and thread models. You can find othercombinations as well. Exception handling affects C++ development. Don't everlink object code with different types of exception and/or thread handling!

Threads concerning the question 'where to find mingw-w64 builds':

• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.w64.general/7700
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.w64.general/8484

"mingw-builds" is a set of scripts and patches for compiling the GCC toolchainunder Windows with the help of msys2 POSIX environment -https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds/tree/develop recent 'mingw-builds' GCCtoolchains can be downloaded from the mingw-w64 sf.net (4)

MSYS2 is the successor of MSYS. MSYS2 is necessary as environment for the GCC build process on Windows.-http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/

Recent mingw-w64 based tools and library packages together with sources andpatches are available from archlinux as well as from the msys2 maintainers.

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64-archlinux/files/ (i686: Sjlj | x86_64: SEH)
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MINGW/ (i686: Dwarf | x86_64: SEH)

See alsoMingw static toolchain.