MinGW-w32 vs. MinGW

Asked 2011-04-11T09:32:03.210

What's the difference between the MinGW project and the 32-bit portion of the MinGW-w64 project? Does the 32-bit portion of MinGW-w64 have any relation to x64 at all?

It seems like their compilers do the exact same things...

mingw mingw32 mingw-w64

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One looks like it "cross compiles", from 64 bit to 32 bit, whereas the other looks native.

That was just a quick look though, so I could be a long long way off the mark here......

EDIT: This is only somewhat true. A better explanation is provided here

answered 2011-04-11T09:50:38.903

MinGW-w32 vs. MinGW

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