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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 13:13:07 -0800
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On 3/8/2025 10:15 AM, bart wrote:
> 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..

cygwin is okay, well it's been a while since I used it... :^)

https://www.cygwin.com


> 
> 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
> 
>