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MinGW(32), a contraction of minimalist GNU for Windows, is a minimalist development environment for native Microsoft Windows applications.

MinGW(32), a contraction of minimalist GNU for Windows, is a minimalist development environment for native Microsoft Windows applications.

MinGW(32) (or mingw32) is the old name of the project and the name is now MinGW.

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Tag mingw should be preferred over this tag, mingw32.

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Git Bash is extremely slow on Windows 7 x64

I've been using Git on both Windows and Ubuntu during the development of a small project, frequently flipping back and forth between the two. The issue is that Git Bash consistently becomes slow. When I say slow, I mean that running cd takes…
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Change the location of the ~ directory in a Windows install of Git Bash

I am not even sure I am asking the right question. Let me explain my situation: This is about Git on Windows 7. My company sets up the Windows user directory on a network drive, not on the local hard drive (for backup and other purposes beyond the…
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ld.exe: cannot open output file ... : Permission denied

I recently installed CodeBlocks with mingw32 on Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit in order to dust off my c skills, but this problem has me somewhat stumped. I decided to fire off a short Fibonacci generator to make sure my setup was working, but I ran into…
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msys path conversion (or cygpath for msys?)

I need to pass /DEF:c:\filepath\myLib.def" command line option from a bash script to MS compiler/linker. The path is generated as part of build process by a bash script. Basically, the argument that my script passes…
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Automake error './ltmain.sh' not found

I've installed mingw and msys by using mingw-get-setup.exe. I've also installed Autotools(autoconf, automake,m4,libtool) into C:\/opt/autotools. When I run automake, the following error always occurs: configure.ac:11: error: required file…
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Setting colors for ls in git bash on windows

I have installed GitHub for Windows recently and am using the git bash prompt - the one thing that is bugging me right now is when I type LS all directories are listed in blue. How do I change my git bash shell so that when I type LS the directories…
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MinGW-w32 vs. MinGW

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...
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How to compile on multiple cores using mingw inside QTCreator

I have a quad-core i7 CPU on my windows desktop. I am trying to get mingw32-make to compile using as many core as possible. I have added -j8 into the "Make Arguments" fields under Build Settings->Build Steps. mingw32-make seems to completely ignore…
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Undefined reference to WinMain (C++ MinGW)

Currently, I am trying to make a Windows application using C++. For compiling my program I use MinGW (GCC). But as soon as I use int WINAPI wWinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE, PWSTR pCmdLine, int nCmdShow) instead of int main() the compiler…
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Where is vimrc or vim profile for github's mingw32 shell on a Windows machine?

Cygwin has a home directory where I can store a .vimrc file to set up syntax highlighting. I know on linux machines this file is usually in a home directory and that it can be stored globally (although I haven't figure out how the global thing…
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undefined reference to `getline' in c

I am learning to use getline in C programming and tried the codes from http://crasseux.com/books/ctutorial/getline.html #include #include #include int main(int atgc, char *argv[]) { int bytes_read = 1; int…
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how to generate pdb files while building library using mingw?

I am cross compiling from linux to windows using the mingw32 tools. I need to generate pdb files for debugging on windows. Is there a way to do this?
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How can I change a specific font color in git?

I'm looking to change the 'red' font color in git to something that is more towards pink. I tend to keep my monitors pretty dim, and whenever I look through diffs, the red font on the black background is hard to read. So, is there a way to specify…
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Multiple "could not be resolved" problems using Eclipse with minGW

I have recently installed (the latest builds of) 'Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers' and minGW (4.8.1) to help me to get back into C++ after a long time away. I have added -std=c++11 to Other flags at C/C++ Build/Settings/Tool Settings/GCC C++…
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Double to int implicit conversion in mingw32

I can't explain the behaviour of the following program (compiled with gcc on mingw 32 bits). I'm aware of the possible precision loss when implicitly converting from double to int, but I would expect the two cases to give the same output since it is…
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