mingw-w64 VS zig

Compare mingw-w64 vs zig and see what are their differences.

mingw-w64

(Unofficial) Mirror of mingw-w64-code (by mingw-w64)

zig

General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software. (by ziglang)
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mingw-w64 zig
2 816
309 30,773
3.6% 3.2%
9.8 10.0
8 days ago 2 days ago
C Zig
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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mingw-w64

Posts with mentions or reviews of mingw-w64. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-18.
  • The Atrocities of COM win32 headers
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Dec 2021
    > I actually did this, to make it error out cleanly instead of having to debug this very non-obvious issue, quite recently: https://github.com/mingw-w64/mingw-w64/commit/ca35236d9799af...

    Thanks! I believe this will save many people a lot of time in their debugger.

    > The runtime pseudo relocation fixing code ends up linked into your executables even if the executable doesn't use any runtime pseudo relocations - so essentially all MinGW programs will end up importing this function. That doesn't mean it does get called though.

    Oops. Not a big deal, though; I assume it won't get called if the table is empty.

zig

Posts with mentions or reviews of zig. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mingw-w64 and zig you can also consider the following projects:

llvm-mingw - An LLVM/Clang/LLD based mingw-w64 toolchain

Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

MSYS2-packages - Package scripts for MSYS2.

Odin - Odin Programming Language

glibc-abi-tool - A repository that collects glibc .abilist files for every version and a tool to combine them into one dataset.

v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io

win32metadata - Tooling to generate metadata for Win32 APIs in the Windows SDK.

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

go - The Go programming language

ssr-proxy-js - A Server-Side Rendering Proxy focused on customization and flexibility!

rust - Rust for the xtensa architecture. Built in targets for the ESP32 and ESP8266

TinyGo - Go compiler for small places. Microcontrollers, WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), and command-line tools. Based on LLVM.