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.
Aplikace napsané pomocí cross-platform knihoven portovaných do MinGW, jako SDL, wxWidgets, Qt, nebo GTK+ se obvykle kompilují bezproblémově jak na MinGW tak v Cygwinu.