Cygwin VS MinGW-w64

Cygwin Reviews

MinGW-w64 Reviews

Cygwin mentions (10)

• Groovy 🎷 Cheat Sheet - 01 Say "Hello" from Groovy

  Alternatively, you can use sdkman. A great tool to install your Software Development Kit. The downside is that it only works on *nix systems. So for Widnows users, you will have to use WSL or Cygwin as the official page suggests. It is really simple to use sdkman. After a successful installation, just type those commands into your *nix shell:. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• How do you even get started programming in c++ on Windows?

  You could try Cygwin. I never leave home without it. Source: about 1 year ago

• What exactly IS gitbash?

  It's launching MSYS2, which is in turn based on cygwin, which is a collection of common Linux utilities built for windows and an incomplete POSIX abstraction layer. Source: over 1 year ago

• Kind of an obvious design flaw

  IME, not really? Git for Windows or MSYS2 are both pretty solid. I used Cygwin for years, but MSYS2 seems to integrate a bit more smoothly (plus MSYS uses pacman instead of Cygwin's fiddly gui for package management). Source: over 1 year ago

• WSL - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS using a ton of memory?

  Try Cygwin or Msys2, they are not running virtual machines. For Bash and Neovim only you probably don't want to run a whole virtual machine. Source: over 1 year ago

MinGW-w64 mentions (7)

• I have tried so many times to make windows recognize the java and c compilers using environment variables and it's not working. windows is not recognizing the compilers

  Download and install the MinGW-w64 GCC for Windows: https://mingw-w64.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Updating CLion Compiler to use C++ Modules

  Looking at the Compiler Support page on cppreference.com, it shows GCC version 11 as having partial support for modules. I went to mingw-w64.org website and saw they had MinGW-w64-builds with version 12.1.0/10.0.0, so I figured I'd download and install that, which is where I am having issues. Source: over 1 year ago

• Discussion Thread

  If I wanted to build and run a MASM syntax Win32 assembly program on Linux, I would indeed probably use jwasm to assmble but then I would use mingw-w64 to link (despite the name, it supports 32-bit and 64-bit, it's more up-to-date than pure 32-bit mingw), and then run using WINE. Source: almost 3 years ago

• I'm having problems installing Raylib for Go

  I finally got the Mingw-w64 for my pc, and of course, I got Golang and all. I have been working with it and (for the most part) has been working alright! But when I try used Go get, nothing weird happens but the compiler still tell me this :. Source: about 3 years ago

• How legit is the compiler and how likely can a compiler be malware and how hard it is to be detected?

  However, what is preventing you from getting the thing from its website, http://mingw-w64.org/ ? Source: about 3 years ago