'MSYS2': : MSYS2 (Minimal SYStem 2) is an independent rewrite of MSYS, a (command-line) shell for development usage, and based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 (from 'MinGW-builds'), with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software. Packages are available with both 'posix' and 'win32' threading libraries, for 32 bit also with sjlj or dwarf exception variants. Provides both packages with a 32-bit and a 64-bit compiler (Windows host), that can also cross-compile to 32-bit or 64-bit. 'MinGW-builds': : a binary package by developer: niXman, lexx83 (Alexpux). Packages are built with every GCC release, experimental and prerelease packages are built on request. 'RubenVB personal builds': For 32-bit Windows target targetting Win32/Personal Builds/rubenvb/ and for 64-bit Windows target targetting Win64/Personal Builds/rubenvb/ :įeatures different packages with cygwin, win32, win64, linux as host. The MinGW-w64 project however does not provide official binary builds: These can be grabbed either from the personal build directories of the developers (the most popular being rubenvb), or from associated but independent projects like tdm-gcc or mingw-builds or msys2. The independent minGW-w64 project provides support for 64 bit, and also supports a much larger part of the Windows API. The MinGW from does only support gcc 32 bit (host and target). (Compiled with TDM-GCC-64 and cygwin64, no ANGLE) (includes libgcc, winpthread, and libstdc++ DLLs) Recommended package for 32 bit (also tested in CI system + used by installer for 5.1):Ĭommunity member George Edison has cross-compiled Qt 5.0.1 for Windows using the Mingw-w64 compilers and is hosting the archives here:Īlternate QT 5.6.0 build by MultipleMonomials because the link above has broken: here. The MinGW-builds repo includes MinGW-w64 toolchains. Starting with Qt 5.0.1 there are also binary installers that ship a Mingw-w64 based toolchain + pre-built Qt libraries. We recommend a MinGW-w64 based distribution with a recent gcc. This is about MinGW-w64, MinGW, MSYS, MSYS2 and Qt 5. 5 MinGW-builds (with OpenSSL, ICU and QtWebKit).

4 Criteria for original decision on toolchain.3.5 GCC Threading model (posix vs win32).3.4 Exception handling: SJLJ, DWARF, and SEH.

Installing mingw-w64