ANanthk·Apr 22, 2026
w64devkit it's fine too; with just a few PATH settings and SDL2 libraries I could even compile UXN and some small SDl2 bound emulators.
https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit
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Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 (and x86) Windows
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10 sourcesSkeeto/w64devkit: Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 (and x86) Windows
4 points · Open discussionIf you ever wanted to use a modern C and C++ compiler on windows xp, 32 bit version of w64devkit[1] does target it and provides a recent gcc version.
[1] https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit
In Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XPSee also, for Windows: w64devkit, and the included busybox-w32
https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit
https://frippery.org/busybox/
In Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line> A thin layer on top of Windows that mimics Linux so I can run bash _properly_ is all I really need.
Something like skeeto's w64devkit? https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit
In MinC Is Not Cygwin> Are you getting MinGW mixed up with Cygwin?
I think you're right, this is probably the BSD equivalent of Cygwin.
That being said... I feel the distinction is very blurred, and even more so with the inclusion of MSYS. It seems very few people use naked MinGW, despite a few distributions[1][2] being available.
For instance, MinGW also provides `unistd.h` and `pthread.h` on top of `windows.h`. Certain distributions of MinGW provide lib{std}c++ instead of MSVC STL. Where does 'build native Windows executables from source files that are already targetted at Windows' stop, and 'allows compiling source code intended for *nix to native Windows binaries' begin?
Also, based on my comment above, MinGW doesn't do a great job at 'already targetted at Windows', because some very core libraries that rely on fundamental Windows-y constructs don't work.
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Personally I avoid it because of its incompleteness, and just use straight `clang++.exe` from the Windows LLVM release[4], aside a full install of the Windows and MSVC SDKs.
[1]: https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit
[2]: https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw
[3]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/download/llvmo...
Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 (and x86) Windows
2 points · Open discussionSimilar project providing slightly fewer tools: https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit
In WinLibs: Standalone build of GCC and MinGW-w64 for WindowsIf you follow the link:
https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit
It clearly says it's a dockerfile.
In W64devkit: A Portable C and C++ Development Kit for Windows