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On 08/03/2025 17:29, Michael S wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:15:42 -0800
> Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>      GCC contains support for x86-64 using the mingw-w64 runtime
>> library, available from https://www.mingw-w64.org/downloads/. This
>> library should be used with the target triple x86_64-pc-mingw32.
>>
> 
> The gcc compiler that I use on Windows most of the time has different
> tripple: x86_64-w64-mingw32
> It is a native Window program for AMD64 (a.k.a. x86_64) architecture
> that generates likewise objects/exe.
> I am not sure about the meaning of the 3rd part of the triple.
> 

I think nobody does. There's always been some sort of mystique 
surrounding 'gcc' on Windows.

'MinGW' supposedly 'Minimalist Gnu on Windows'. In that case I wouldn't 
like to see the full-scale one..

My gcc installation 14.1 takes up nearly 0.9GB; don't ask me how much of 
that, if any, is 'MinGW'. My view is all mentions of 'MinGW' could be 
removed at a stroke, and nothing would really change: you'd still have a 
compiler called 'gcc' that can compile C programs for an x64 Win64 ABI 
target.

Newer gcc's I now obtain from winlibs.com (ones like TDM are stuck at 
10.2). On that site, it explains something about MingW, although I still 
don't really get it:

https://winlibs.com/philosophy.html