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LLVM MinGW (MSVCRT runtime) 22.1.3-20260407, published by Martin Storsjö, is a reproducible recipe for building a complete LLVM/Clang/LLD-based mingw-w64 toolchain that links against the Microsoft Visual C Runtime. The distribution replaces the traditional GNU binutils with corresponding LLVM components, delivering a single compiler package that can target i686, x86_64, armv7 and arm64 Windows platforms from one set of binaries instead of maintaining separate toolchains per architecture. This configuration is especially valued for cross-platform CI pipelines and embedded development because it produces native Windows executables with PDB debug symbols, enables Address Sanitizer and Undefined Behaviour Sanitizer instrumentation, and, since LLVM 16, supports Control Flow Guard via the ‑mguard=cf compile and link flags. Developers who need Windows on ARM builds benefit from the toolchain’s out-of-the-box support for that ecosystem, something the standard GCC-based MinGW-w64 distributions do not provide. Typical use cases range from building open-source libraries for multiple Windows architectures in a single pass to integrating modern sanitizers into legacy codebases without abandoning the MSVCRT runtime dependency. The project has released twenty-five numbered versions to date, iterating in step with upstream LLVM releases and refining MSYS2 packaging scripts so that builds remain deterministic. The current 22.1.3-20260407 refresh incorporates the latest Clang, LLD and compiler-rt improvements while preserving the same command-line interface across all supported hosts. LLVM MinGW (MSVCRT runtime) is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always delivering the latest version and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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