If you look at the file lists on the Ubuntu package webserver for mingw-w64
‘s constituent packages:
gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64
g++-mingw-w64-x86-64
binutils-mingw-w64-x86-64
mingw-w64-x86-64-dev
gcc-mingw-w64-i686
g++-mingw-w64-i686
binutils-mingw-w64-i686
mingw-w64-i686-dev
You can see that mingw-w64
provides a toolchain, i.e. a set of alternative tools (compiler, linker, headers, etc.) used to compile your code for another system.
Assuming you want to compile C++ code for a 64-bit system, you’ll need to use /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++-win32
. You can use the CXX
environment variable to tell most Makefiles to use that compiler to compile code.