I get massive output with the following message (differentiated only by hex address): ld.exe: DWARF error: could not find variable specification at offset 101cee What is the meaning of this error ...

I am desperately trying to install the latest version of mingw-w64 to get acess to gcc 10 on windows 10. I used the online installer for mingw-w64 in the past, but it is still stuck in 2018 on 8.1...

When using MinGW, it's easy to run into a DLL hell, i.e. your program not running because it either doesn't find the required DLLs or finds incompatible versions of them. This can manifest itself a...

I'm trying to use C++20 in VS Code with the Code Runner extension, which allows me to run code using ctrl+alt+n. I have installed MinGW64 through the MSYS2 installer. My compiler version is 12.0.2....

I opted for the Win32 threading model when installing the MinGW-w64 toolchain, after reading that it provides better performance than the POSIX counterpart. I am not qualified for benchmarking this...

After compiling an application in the mingw-w64 64-bit Shell, it runs fine inside the shell, but gives an error the application was unable to start correctly (0xc00007b) when run normally, outside ...

On msys2, I installed the mingw-w64 toolchain. I can run gcc from MINGW64 shell, but not make. pacman claims mingw-w64-x86_64-make is installed. What gives?

I'm just starting to learn C moving from C++, and I was just trying out a ton of variable types. I am using the MingGW-w64 toolset with the GCC compiler. This version supposedly uses UCRT runtime i...

I installed Git on my Windows 10 a couple of months ago. It worked well for some time. But now, it's running very slow. The git status command takes 7 seconds to execute, and git stash takes many m...

Using MSYS2 64-bit version 20161025 on Windows 10... I'm unable to get msys2 to recognize programs in the windows path. For example, after installing Go version 1.8.3 using the windows the install...

I try to install MinGW-w64, but during install i got the file has been downloaded incorrectly I have 64 bit win10 and my option of installation: I use that link sourceforge. and some commen...

I have installed MinGW-w64 and MSYS2. But how do I change the HOME directory in MSYS2? So that when I type cd $home or cd ~ it goes to another directory that I defined. And how do I write a code s...

This is a continuation of trying to compile a license-free GPL version of the Microchip XC32 microcontroller g++ XC32 v4.35 cross-compiler from source. See my Q&A here, and my repo here: https:...

I am unable to figure this out. I am trying to build the Microchip XC32 PIC32 microcontroller GCC cross-compiler. To try it yourself (this is how I got to my error I'm stuck on): On Windows 10 or ...

Any parameters I have tried running with Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature, got access denied. as if the PowerShell did not start with elevated permissions and this is although I did start it as admini...

I'm on windows/Git bash/MingW64, trying to automate adding ssh keys for use with git. I've followed this guide, altering only the path of my private key file. It seems to work - when opening git ba...

I am using git bash on Windows - that is git for Windows via the integrated bash. Apparently it uses the MINGW/MSYS underpinning. (Update from @VonC: It now uses msys2 since msysgit is obsolete sin...

I have been using Git for Windows on my Windows 10 box. I use bash and other command line tools that come with it. I need rsync, but found it doesn't come with this package. I googled and found a m...

MSYS2 is said to have different environments. What are they? How do I choose which one to use? What's the difference between MINGW64 and UCRT64? (This Q&A is intended as a canonical duplicate ...

The error The exact error is the title of the question. It happens when I use vectorName.push_back() function. I recreated it with just this simple code: #include <iostream> #include <vec...

I use the MinGW-w64 g++ compilers 10.2 and 10.3. I have built both myself using https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds. There is an oddity with g++ on Windows: the main thread of an application wil...

I want to build MinGW-w64 where: A: I want to compile MinGW itself on Linux (64-bit). B: I want the MinGW tools (compiler, etc) to run on Linux (64-bit). C: I want the MinGW tools (compiler, etc) ...

Clang 8 release notes have this promising line: Allow using Address Sanitizer and Undefined Behaviour Sanitizer on MinGW. However, I unable to figure out how to use those properly. I'm us...

is there any way to install mingw-w64 offline ? I tried many official sources and all of them seem to need some sort of internet access. I'm looking for something that works for both x32 and x64 sy...

How can I speed up MinGW-w64's extremely slow C++ compilation/linking? Compiling a trivial "Hello World" program: #include <iostream> int main() { std::cout << "hello wo...