

Microsoft Visual Studio is IDE and have its own compiler for C++, which is why you needed MinGW for Atom Text Editor since its an editor and you needed a compiler for it. To avoid the problem, add the directory where you build your code to the list of exclusion in the antivirus. The executable generated by your version of MinGW looks very similar to a particular virus. There is no malware, it is a false positive. MinGW is basically a port of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) for Microsoft Windows. It contains several malicious payloads including a bitcoin stealer and a virus. The other one is MinGW-w64, which was available for download at the beginning of our investigation. MinGW – which stands for “Minimalist GNU for Windows”, is a minimalist development environment for native Microsoft Windows applications. Just delete the folder and the environment variable. We can’t uninstall MinGW with program manager. MinGW-w64 is in all senses the successor to MinGW. There is a 64-bit environment similar to MinGW but it’s a different project. MinGW is higher performance than Cygwin, but it’s also 32-bit which may be a problem with your applications. Mingw-w64 is a free and open source software development environment to create Microsoft Windows PE applications. In summary, MinGW contains GCC which is in the collection of GNU free software. MinGW stands for “Minimalist GNU for Windows” It is essentially a tool set that includes some GNU software, including a port of GCC. 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. Please remember that MinGW provides essentially the same C API as msvcrt. 1 and above) are very capable of producing good 64-bit code for Windows. I have found the MinGW-w64 compilers very good, and GCC 4.6 and above (actually, 4.5. It provides C, C++ and Fortran compilers plus other related tools. MinGW is a compiler system based on the GNU GCC and Binutils projects that compiles and links code to be run on Win32 (Windows) systems. MinGW-w64 only provides their source code, but no binaries to “just use” the compiler. MinGW-w64 is a improved version which supports both 32bit and 64bit, and some more of the WinAPI (still not all, because thats much work, but more than MinGW).

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