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		bullen on Jan 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Some sanity for C and C++ development on Windows Thx! So back to MinGW it is! I'm surprised this is so hard to find, why is there no official redistributable compiler for Windows?! What is Microsoft so afraid of? This is the only disadvantage Windows has compared to Linux! I guess you can make this alot smaller if you remove the cross compiling parts?

jcelerier on Jan 13, 2022 [–]

it's only "mingw" because it uses the mingw headers. It uses the microsoft modern C runtime (ucrt) and runs just fine under normal cmd.exe shell with c:/windows/formatted/paths, and does not require e.g. MSYS.

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