What is the difference between Orwell's MinGW and TDM Dev-C++ versions?

Question

I am a newbie at this and yesterday I installed Win 8.1 x64 so I would like to use the most suitable program for making my tasks in C/C++. Thanks

Answer 1

For those interested in 32-bit binaries:

Note the code::blocks IDE comes with MinGW, but the compiler is the 32-bit version of TDM-GCC. The TDM version has static runtime linkage by default which makes executables portable to systems without MinGW installed. The TDM-gcc compiler also seems to implement the latest gcc version faster than the other projects.

The MinGW distribution also doesn't use posix emulation to access threads in Windows (unlike MinGW64 or TDM64). There is a separate download source for the headers providing C++11 compliant and functionality for MinGW.