Hi
This is probably a very very stupid series of questions, so apologies in
advance, but having poured over the website on numerous occasions, I still
can't figure out what exactly I need to download to use MinGW-64. (I'm actually
successfully building command line programs and dll's for 64 bit Windows 7
using the mingw-builds and rubenvb toolchains, but I'm still not 100% clear as
to what I'm doing).
Here goes...
From the MinGW-64 website Overview, "Mingw-w64 delivers runtime, headers and
libs for developing both 64 bit (x64) and 32 bit (x86) windows applications
using GCC and other free software compilers". I understand this, i.e. the
MinGW-64 runtime does not include a compiler toolchain [please correct me if
i'm wrong], so I also need a toolchain, e.g. mingw-builds or rubenvb.
However...
Q1. Having downloaded the mingw-builds or rubenvb toolchains, without
separately downloading the Mingw64 runtime, I can build and run programs and
dll's. So, does the toolchain download include the MinGW-64 runtime, or am I
implicitly building against the Microsoft runtime and don't need the MinGW-64
runtime? On what occasions do I separately need to download the MinGW runtime?
Q2. If I want to develop on a 'devel' machine and then copy the binaries on to
a 'live' machine (without the source code), do I need the runtime and a
toolchain on the 'devel' machine, but only the runtime on the 'live' machine?
Thanks in advance
John
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