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Mingw-w64 is an advancement of the original mingw.org project, created to support the GCC compiler on Windows systems. It has forked it in 2007 in order to provide support for 64 bits and new APIs. It has since then gained widespread use and distribution.

vcpkg includes x64, x86, arm64 and arm community triplets for Mingw-w64. They don't depend on Visual Studio and can be used natively on Windows as well as for cross-compiling on other operating systems. There are two variants of each triplet, selecting between static and dynamic linking.