mingw-builds-binaries VS pemsa-sdl

I've been using these mingw64 builds, both for amd64 and i386 (i686). There are several others out there, like winlibs.com.

I noticed most tutorials recommend downloading the installer from a sourceforge page, https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/ but the official MinGW-w64 site provides a link to a GitHub page. https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds-binaries/releases Which one is safer? Which one would you choose?

I've tried the latest MinGW-builds-binaries release, and gcc, g++ and mingw32-make seem to work just fine, I was even able to build a project using SDL2! gdb needed bcrypt.dll, so unfortunately that didn't work.

strip * can be run inside Linux, or in Windows I downloaded the posix-sjlj release for mingw64, & then appended its extracted bin directory to the Path environmental variable (from Start Menu type advanced system settings).

The https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds-binaries repository is very new, it contains only the yaml file needed to build the toolchains with GitHub Actions.

Recently he created a new repository named https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds-binaries which uses the scripts above with GitHub Actions to build windows binaries.

Using the above toolchain, I tried building pemsa-sdl next. I failed to get the CMakeLists.txt file to work, so I had to compile it manually using the command line. Seems like there was a function about BSTR conversion missing, so I had to use some code I found on a random SourceForge mailing list. It compiled, but when I tried it to run it, it complained about missing API set DLLs, and at that point I just gave up.