MinGW-w64 provides a development and runtime environment for 32- and 64-bit (x86 and x64) Windows applications using the Windows API and the GNU Compiler Collection (gcc).

This metapackage provides the MinGW-w64 development environment, including C and C++ compilers. Ada, Fortran, Objective-C and Objective-C++ compilers are available respectively in the gnat-mingw-w64, gfortran-mingw-w64, gobjc-mingw-w64 and gojbc++-mingw-w64 packages.