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As far as I understand, cygwin/msys gcc compiles and links against cygwin.dll/msys.dll which is a incomplete POSIX emulation on Windows. mingw gcc compiles and

by botw 11y ago

As far as I understand, cygwin/msys gcc compiles and links against cygwin.dll/msys.dll which is a incomplete POSIX emulation on Windows. mingw gcc compiles and links against msvc.dll which is MS c runtime for MS win32 native application.