Different types C/C++ Compiler GCC/Mingw/MSVC

In this post I have listed the different types of C/C++ compilers that available C for Windows Operating System. There's numbers of options or choice to choose a c++ compilers for windows. 

GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)

GNU compiler collection is an optimizing compiler that support the various programming language, hardware architectures and operating system. This is produce by JNU Project.

Free software foundation has distributes GCC as free for users under the gnu general public license.

User invoke a language-specific driver program for e.g.

gcc for C, g++ for C++ 

which interprets command args, called actual compiler, runs the assembler on the output and then runs the linker to produce a complete executable binary.

MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows)

MinGW, also know as mingw32, is a free and open source software developement environment to create Microsoft Windows Application software. This is also the provide by JNU Project means comes under (GNU General Public Licence)

Most language supported by GCC are also supported by MinGW port as well

Mingw-w64

Again free and open source software development environment to create Microsoft Windows PE application. It is forked from MinGW in b/w 2005-2010.

 

Microsoft Visual C++

It is compiler for C, C++, C++/CLI and C++/CX programming language by Microsoft corp. MSVC is proprietary software. It was standalone product but latter it's became the part of Visual Studio. It is available in both forms trialware( trial ) and freeware ( fee to use).