This package provides the header files, system object modules, dynamic link libraries, import libraries and static libraries which constitute the standard MinGW Runtime API. This is a required component of the MinGW Compiler Suite. This package provides an alternative implementation of the MinGW libraries, to support dynamic linking of the principal non-Microsoft components of the MinGW Runtime API. This is an optional component of the MinGW Compiler Suite. This package provides the header files, and import libraries constituting a standard API for the development of applications which utilise the capabilities of the 32-bit MS-Windows system dynamic link libraries. This is a required component of the MinGW Compiler Suite.