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		delta_p_delta_x 61 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I fixed Windows native development There are some pretty useful abstractions and libraries that MinGW doesn't work with. Biggest example is the WIL[1], which Windows kernel programmers use and is a massive improvement in ergonomics and safety when writing native Windows platform code. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/wil

vitaminCPP 61 days ago [–]

I fail to see why this would not work with gcc if it works with clang. The runtime?

delta_p_delta_x 61 days ago | [–]

'MinGW' is not GCC; it's an ABI, and from the developer perspective it is also the headers and the libraries. You can have GCC MinGW, Clang MinGW, Rust MinGW, Zig MinGW, C# AOT MinGW.

To answer your question, the headers.

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