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At least from 2021-01-10T15:19:40Z, I cannot access www.mingw.org.
As far as I know, that is the official mingw web page.

Does anybody know the status of www.mingw.org? Or, any other suite place to ask this question?

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I stopped using http://mingw.org/ ages ago as it was getting behind on newer Windows API additions and newer gcc versions.

Instead I really recommend MinGW-w64, which supports both Windows 32-bit and 64-bit.

If you want to keep your old MinGW on your system and would like to give MinGW-w64 a try without interfering with your installed version, you can download a standalone build from http://winlibs.com/ that you just need to download and extract.

If you use MSYS shell you should also switch to the newer MSYS2, which is a lot faster.

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    Do you mean that mingw is totally developing on MinGW-w64 and http://mingw.org/ is abandoned? – yumetodo Jan 12 '21 at 02:49
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    It started out as a fork but it it has been kept way more up to date, including support for 64-bit Windows. See e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25582110/what-is-the-difference-between-mingw-mingw-w64-and-mingw-builds – Brecht Sanders Jan 12 '21 at 07:53
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I guess they've stopped paying for this domain.

The good news is that MinGW is still available on MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows download | SourceForge.net. Note that the maintainer announced on the homepage:

This project is in the process of moving to osdn.net/projects/mingw, you can continue to follow us there.

So you may need to go to MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows Project Top Page - OSDN.

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The official website has been changed to https://gcc.gnu.org/, so rather installing MinGW or MinGW-w64 from sourceforge.net it is better to get gcc snapshots or clone gnu github repository. The best will be goto http://winlibs.com/ and download the latest gcc version zip and extract to your directory. As it will be an upto date version for mordern c++ verion.

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  • Hmm, why did you mention https://gcc.gnu.org/ ? – li ki Sep 18 '21 at 07:25
  • @liki https://gcc.gnu.org/ is the official gcc website, there is no website called http://mingw.org/ and people can read about the latest released version and their documentation. – NEERAJ SINGHAL Jan 02 '22 at 16:32