Applications written using a cross-platform library that has itself been ported to MinGW, such as SDL, wxWidgets, Qt, or GTK+, will usually compile as easily in MinGW as they would in Cygwin.
Programele scrise folosind biblioteci independente de platformă, precum SDL, wxWidgets, Qt sau GTK+ de obicei se compilează cu MinGW la fel de ușor ca în Cygwin.