mingw confusion, is it another wine ?

Hi Guys

I have ofcourse googled but that did not help much.

Mingw seems to be something made by the gnu(gnu is not Unix) guys.

It seems to be windows for Linux, and that's were my confusion starts.

Wine is already windows for Linux ?

The dependencies, of a program called Carla seems to need both mingw and Wine.

How does this work ?

You need to compile twice ? :O


When I search in YAST, I do find allot of mingw related stuff, but which one do I need ?
Do I have to talk to the Carla developer? ( I already know he knows allot about debian / ubuntu, but not openSUSE.)


I think I found the right package, but I am beyond lost, what to do with it.

mingw32-binutils