Required:

• MinGW-w64 toolchain

  • win32 threads (as opposed to posix threads) is recommended to avoid dependency on libwinpthread-1.dll

• CMake

Recommended:

• Debugging Tools for Windows for the latest version of dbghelp.dll and symsrv.dll DLLs.

• Python 2.x for running some of the tests.

I always build DrMinGW from Linux with MinGW cross-compilation toolchain. See here for details.

It is also possible to build with a native MinGW toolchain, by doing:

set Path=C:\path\to\mingw\bin;%Path%
cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" -H. -Bbuild
cmake --build build

These instructions have been tested with the following MinGW-w64 toolchains:

• 32-bits

• 64-bits

but in theory it should work with any flavour of MinGW-w64 native toolchain, provided that it includes a native mingw32-make.exe.

Note that building with MSYS or Cygwin is not necessary nor supported.