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Description

MinGW is a toolchain for creating Windows executables. The MinGW-w64 projects offers toolchains for creating 32-bit and 64-bit Windows executables.

Macros

Type	Macro	Description	MinGW	MinGW-w64 32-bit	MinGW-w64 64-bit
Identification	`__MINGW32__`		defined	defined	defined
Version	`__MINGW32_MAJOR_VERSION`	Version	defined	defined	defined
Version	`__MINGW32_MINOR_VERSION`	Revision	defined	defined	defined
Identification	`__MINGW64__`		-	-	defined
Version	`__MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR`	Version	-	defined	defined
Version	`__MINGW64_VERSION_MINOR`	Revision	-	defined	defined

Notes

Notice that __MINGW32_MAJOR_VERSION, __MINGW32_MINOR_VERSION, __MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR, and __MINGW64_VERSION_MINOR are only defined if appropriate headers are included.

Appropriate headers are stdlib.h, stdio.h, windows.h, windef.h, and probably more.