Several questions: Is it correct to understand that MinGW is essentially taking the gcc source and compiling it into an executable for windows, i.e gcc.exe? MinGW wiki says "MinGW on the other ha...

I am a Microsoft Visual Studio user. My question is about the "C/C++ Runtime Library". I created an "Empty Project" with a ".cpp" source file "main.cpp" containing the following code: #include &l...