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MinGW (''Minimalist GNU for Windows''), formerly mingw32, is a free and open source software development environment for creating Microsoft Windows applications. It includes a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Binutils for Windows (assembler, linker, archive manager), a set of freely distributable Windows specific header files and static import libraries which enable the use of the Windows API, a Windows native build of the GNU Project's GNU Debugger, and miscellaneous utilities. MinGW does not rely on third-party C runtime dynamic-link library (DLL) files, and because the runtime libraries are not distributed using the GNU General Public License (GPL), it is not necessary to distribute the source code with the programs produced, unless a GPL library is used elsewhere in the program.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= MinGW )〕 MinGW can be run either on the native Microsoft Windows platform, cross-hosted on GNU/Linux, or "cross-native" on Cygwin. An alternative called MinGW-w64 was created by a different author to include several new APIs and provide 64-bit support and is described later in this article. ==History== MinGW was originally called mingw32 (''Minimalist GNU for W32''), following the GNU convention whereby Windows is shortened as "W32". The numbers were dropped in order to avoid the implication that it would be limited to producing 32-bit binaries. Colin Peters authored the initial release in 1998, consisting only of a Cygwin port of GCC.〔 Jan-Jaap van der Heijden created a Windows-native port of GCC and added binutils and make.〔〔 Mumit Khan later took over development, adding more Windows-specific features to the package, including the Windows system headers by Anders Norlander.〔〔 In 2000, the project was moved to SourceForge.net in order to solicit more assistance from the community and centralize its development.〔〔 MinGW was selected as Project of the Month at SourceForge.net for September 2005. In the last quarter of 2013 a new project was started,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=stackoverflow )〕 MSYS2 together with 32-bit and 64-bit MinGW packages. This project was created to keep track with newer advances of the Cygwin project and the fact that the original MSYS was not able to keep up with Cygwin. MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software. It uses Arch Linux's Pacman as the package manager. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MinGW」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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