Coding/VB C C++

gcc - mingw vs cygwin

smores 2024. 9. 3. 10:41

You should use Cygwin when you have POSIX code that you want to compile unmodified on Windows. You should use mingw-w64 when you can modify your sources (eg. with lots of #ifdef WIN32) to call Win32 APIs, OR if you are using a framework like glib2 which handles those differences for you.