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[Virtual]

Hey which windows compiler is more standard MinGW or Cygwin???

[v0id]

The most Windows compatible compiler are probably the compiler which ships with Visual C++ (and Visual Studio, and probably other products too), as it's developed by Microsoft. So I would say it's the "standard" compiler for Windows, though I, personally, prefer GCC, no matter what platform I'm on.

[Rothzael]

Out of the two, I personally prefer MinGW.

[G_Morgan]

Cygwin is more standards compliant but is also more of a pain to set up and use. I'd go for MinGW.

Standards and Windows is a contradiction of terms though. If you're that concerned then I'd do parallel testing on a Unix system. Replace any functions that don't act equivalently with your own (getline is a good example, the Windows version does some pretty non standard things which are slightly better but still aren't standard so are harder to work with in terms of portability).

[WingedPanther]

Also, be aware that there are some things that are not specified by the standard, which means that you can have varying behaviors that are all "standards compliant".