Win-builds
(Free) Software Building and Packaging For Windows
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Win-builds is a large distribution of binary packages for Windows. All of them are built from source. Win-builds provides a package manager and runs on Windows, MSYS, Cygwin and Linux. It is entirely free software.
From any host
Run from MSYS, Cygwin or bare Windows
On Linux, build only the cross-compiler, reuse all other packages
Or use the virtual machines and containers
Large, coherent set of packages
Qt, Curl, EFL, freetype, GTK+, lua, openssl, sqlite, wget, zlib, …
92 libraries and tools on Windows
Quick and simple installs
Set up a complete development environment in 5 minutes on a broadband connection
GUI for easy usage
32/64bits
GCC 4.8.3 - C, C++ Mingw-w64 v3.3.0
Scripted, clean, reproducible
Be in control of your infrastructure
Customize as you wish
Well-documented
Security updates
Packages get security updates
Announces and security advisories through mailing-lists
