MinGW

MinGW is an implementation of C. Other implementations of C.

MinGW is an implementation of C++. Other implementations of C++.

MinGW is a port of GCC to Windows.

MinGW can compile C, C++, and some other languages. The compiled programs are .exe files; they can use the Microsoft C runtime MSVCRT.DLL and several other Microsoft libraries.

Microsoft includes the DLL libraries with Windows. MinGW provides the import libraries and the header files, like <windows.h> and <stdio.h>.