Question

What is MinGW? What is its use?

Answer 1

MinGW refers to a set of runtime header files, used in compiling and linking the code of C, C++, and FORTRAN to be run on the Windows Operating System.

MinGw-W64 (a version of MinGW) is the best compiler for C++ on Windows. To compile and execute the C++ program, you need ‘g++’ for Windows. MinGW allows to compilation and execution of C++ programs dynamically through a Python program using g++.

Python program that contains the C++ coding can be executed only through the minGW-w64 project run terminal. The run terminal opens the command-line window through which the Python program should be executed.