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If you already know the general facts about the xPack MinGW-w64 GCC, you can directly skip to the desired pages.
User pages:
Developer & maintainer pages:
Overview
The xPack MinGW-w64 GCC is an cross-platform standalone binary distribution of the GNU Compiler Collection on top of the Mingw-w64 runtime environment.
Benefits
The main advantages of using the xPack MinGW-w64 GCC are:
- a convenient, uniform and portable install/uninstall/upgrade procedure, the same procedure is used for all major platforms (Intel Windows 64-bit, Intel GNU/Linux 64-bit, Arm GNU/Linux 64/32-bit, Intel macOS 64-bit, Apple Silicon macOS 64-bit)
- a convenient integration with Continuous Integration environments, like GitHub Actions
- a better integration with development environments like Eclipse Embedded CDT.
All binaries are self-contained, they include all required libraries, and can be installed in any location.
Compatibility
The xPack MinGW-w64 GCC is fully compatible with the original GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and generates Windows binaries.
Install
The details of installing the xPack MinGW-w64 GCC on various platforms are presented in the separate install page.
Documentation
The original GNU GCC documentation is available online:
Support
For the various support options, please read the separate support page.
Change log
The release and change log is available in the repository
CHANGELOG.md file.
Build details
For those interested in building the binaries, please read the
README-MAINTAINER
page.
However, the ultimate source for details are the build scripts themselves,
all available from the
mingw-w64-gcc-xpack.git/scripts
folder.
Releases
See the releases pages.