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Re: The mingw* mess in Debian



On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 01:33:14PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> is there a reason why we have both a mingw32 and a gcc-mingw32
> package in Debian? Both seem to contain the same, i.e. the GCC from
> the MinGW project (please note they dropped the "32" for a while),
> but the version in gcc-mingw32 is newer than the one in mingw32.
> 
> For the 64-bit variant, there is mingw-w64

While the name has been carefully chosen to cause as much confusion as
possible, what you want is mingw-w64.  It supports both win32 and win64,
and provides a modern version of the compiler.

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