The MinGW from http://www.mingw.org/ does only support gcc 32 bit (host and target). The independent minGW-w64 project provides support for 64 bit, and also supports a much larger part of the Windows API. The MinGW-w64 project however does not provide official binary builds: These can be grabbed either from the personal build directories of the developers (the most popular being rubenvb), or from associated but independent projects like tdm-gcc or mingw-builds or msys2.
Source: http://wiki.qt.io/MinGW-64-bit
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The MinGW from http://www.mingw.org/ does only support gcc 32 bit (host and target). The independent minGW-w64 project provides support for 64 bit, and also supports a much larger part of the Windows API. The MinGW-w64 project however does not provide official binary builds: These can be grabbed either from the personal build directories of the developers (the most popular being rubenvb), or from associated but independent projects like tdm-gcc or mingw-builds or msys2.
Source: http://wiki.qt.io/MinGW-64-bit
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As said by others MinGW-w64 is a fork of the original MinGW which supports both 32 and 64bit x86 processors. You can find the original motivation for the fork here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/wiki2/History/
Regarding the differences you can find a list here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/wiki2/Feature%20list/
GitHub
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mingw-w32 · GitHub
The MinGW.OSDN Windows System Libraries. Formerly designated as "MinGW.org Windows System Libraries", this encapsulates the "mingwrt" C runtime library extensions, and the "w32api" 32-bit MS-Windows API libraries.
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Gaia-gis
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MinGW (32 bit) how-to - gaia-gis
So you'll simply have to launch mingw32 in order to build any 32 bit executable.
Gnutoolchains
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Transmission Zero
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Building Win32 GUI Applications with MinGW
If you have Git installed, you can get the sample code by running “git clone https://github.com/TransmissionZero/MinGW-Win32-Application.git”. Alternatively you can download a MinGW Win32 Application source release.
SourceForge
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GitHub
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Basic Win32 GUI application which can be built using MinGW. - TransmissionZero/MinGW-Win32-Application
SourceForge
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extract the toolchain to a directory: 32-bit mingw-w32: eg C:\mingw32 so that C:\mingw32\bin contains i686-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe 64-bit mingw-w64: eg C:\mingw64 so that C:\mingw64\bin contains x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe
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WinLibs
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WinLibs - GCC+MinGW-w64 compiler for Windows
WinLibs - MinGW-w64 personal build = GCC for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit - Coming soon: the largest collection of open source libraries ported to Windows using MinGW-w64 and MSYS2.
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MinGW GCC cross development environment for ARM.
Qt Wiki
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MinGW - Qt Wiki
April 2, 2026 - MinGW is a free and open source Windows port of the GCC compiler and related tools. Qt supports MinGW as a platform on Windows (in addition to the Visual Studio compiler by Microsoft). However, it can also be used as a cross-compiler e.g.
mingw-w64
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Pre-built Toolchains - mingw-w64
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Gentoo Wiki
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MinGW - Gentoo wiki
MinGW (historically MinGW32) is a toolchain that provides a native GCC-based environment for compiling Windows binaries. It can also be used in cross-compilation setups to build binaries on other operating systems. MinGW-w64 is a fork of MinGW that adds support for 64-bit Windows executables.
The MinGW from http://www.mingw.org/ does only support gcc 32 bit (host and target). The independent minGW-w64 project provides support for 64 bit, and also supports a much larger part of the Windows API. The MinGW-w64 project however does not provide official binary builds: These can be grabbed either from the personal build directories of the developers (the most popular being rubenvb), or from associated but independent projects like tdm-gcc or mingw-builds or msys2.
Source: http://wiki.qt.io/MinGW-64-bit
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Look more closely at what is actually available:
edd@max:~$ apt-cache search mingw-
libassuan-mingw-w64-dev - IPC library for the GnuPG components -- Windows port
libgcrypt-mingw-w64-dev - LGPL Crypto library - Windows development
libgpg-error-mingw-w64-dev - library of error values and messages in GnuPG (Windows development)
libksba-mingw-w64-dev - X.509 and CMS support library (Windows development)
libnpth-mingw-w64-dev - replacement for GNU Pth using system threads (Windows dev)
binutils-mingw-w64 - Cross-binutils for Win32 and Win64 using MinGW-w64
binutils-mingw-w64-i686 - Cross-binutils for Win32 (x86) using MinGW-w64
binutils-mingw-w64-x86-64 - Cross-binutils for Win64 (x64) using MinGW-w64
g++-mingw-w64 - GNU C++ compiler for MinGW-w64
g++-mingw-w64-i686 - GNU C++ compiler for MinGW-w64 targeting Win32
g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 - GNU C++ compiler for MinGW-w64 targeting Win64
gcc-mingw-w64 - GNU C compiler for MinGW-w64
gcc-mingw-w64-base - GNU Compiler Collection for MinGW-w64 (base package)
gcc-mingw-w64-i686 - GNU C compiler for MinGW-w64 targeting Win32
gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64 - GNU C compiler for MinGW-w64 targeting Win64
gdb-mingw-w64 - Cross-debugger for Win32 and Win64 using MinGW-w64
gdb-mingw-w64-target - Cross-debugger server for Win32 and Win64 using MinGW-w64
gfortran-mingw-w64 - GNU Fortran compiler for MinGW-w64
gfortran-mingw-w64-i686 - GNU Fortran compiler for MinGW-w64 targeting Win32
gfortran-mingw-w64-x86-64 - GNU Fortran compiler for MinGW-w64 targeting Win64
gnat-mingw-w64 - GNU Ada compiler for MinGW-w64
gnat-mingw-w64-base - GNU Ada compiler for MinGW-w64 (base package)
gnat-mingw-w64-i686 - GNU Ada compiler for MinGW-w64 targeting Win32
gnat-mingw-w64-x86-64 - GNU Ada compiler for MinGW-w64 targeting Win64
gobjc++-mingw-w64 - GNU Objective-C++ compiler for MinGW-w64
gobjc++-mingw-w64-i686 - GNU Objective-C++ compiler for MinGW-w64 targeting Win32
gobjc++-mingw-w64-x86-64 - GNU Objective-C++ compiler for MinGW-w64 targeting Win64
gobjc-mingw-w64 - GNU Objective-C compiler for MinGW-w64
gobjc-mingw-w64-i686 - GNU Objective-C compiler for MinGW-w64 targeting Win32
gobjc-mingw-w64-x86-64 - GNU Objective-C compiler for MinGW-w64 targeting Win64
libz-mingw-w64 - compression library - Windows runtime
libz-mingw-w64-dev - compression library - Windows development files
mingw-ocaml - ocaml-mingw-w64 transitional dummy package
mingw-w64 - Development environment targeting 32- and 64-bit Windows
mingw-w64-common - Common files for Mingw-w64
mingw-w64-i686-dev - Development files for MinGW-w64 targeting Win32
mingw-w64-tools - Development tools for 32- and 64-bit Windows
mingw-w64-x86-64-dev - Development files for MinGW-w64 targeting Win64
ocaml-mingw-w64 - OCaml cross-compiler based on mingw -- Meta-package
ocaml-mingw-w64-i686 - OCaml cross-compiler based on mingw -- 32 bit compiler
ocaml-mingw-w64-x86-64 - OCaml cross-compiler based on mingw -- 64 bit compiler
edd@max:~$
So sudo apt-get install gcc-mingw-w64 is probably what you want, and
you should get a 32-bit executable built by setting the appropriate compiler option, likely -m32.
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I tried sudo apt-get install gcc-mingw-w64.
And then I compile the code with the command :
i686-w64-mingw32-gcc-win32 input_code.c -o output.exe
Wikipedia
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GitHub
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MSYS2 -> Installation of MinGW (32-Bit) · GitHub
Msys2 doesn't seem to come with a mingw32 launcher these days so idk how I would actually use it since it's part of the mingw32 environment but there is no mingw32 launcher, at least there wasn't when I installed the latest msys2 version EDIT: never mind, I actually checked the msys64 folder and there was actually a mingw32.exe there, there just wasn't a start menu shortcut created for it for some reason
SourceForge
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