w64devkit
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Jan 15, 2026first mention
Sep 20, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“32 bit version of w64devkit[1] does target it”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Threads where it came up
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All comments 5
This is a really neat kit, from the person who did the recent super impressive Stars! port to modern Windows + speed tuning + MCP server. Submitted earlier today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755378 https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/09/17/
“w64devkit it's fine too”
I used CoLinux with pubuntu, and from there install GCC.
Coincidentally, just a few days ago, I tried to run Nim[0] on Windows XP as an experiment. And to my surprise, the latest 32-bit release of Nim simply works out the box. But Nim compiles to C, so I also needed C compiler and all modern versions of mingw failed to launch. After some time I managed to find very old Mingw (gcc 4.7.1) that have finally worked [0]. [0] - https://nim-lang.org/ [1] - https://ibb.co/TBdvZPVt
“32 bit version of w64devkit[1] does target it”