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<p>Created by Colin Peters,
and released to the public domain,
-the original MinGW — or “Minimalist GNU for Windows”
-— was a system of import libraries, header files, and supporting
-“glue” code, to facilitate the use of Microsoft’s
-<code>CRTDLL.DLL</code> — and later <code>MSVCRT.DLL</code> —
-as the primary run‑time support for a native MS‑Windows port
+the original MinGW — or “Minimalist GNU for
+Windows” — was a system of import libraries,
+header files, and supporting “glue” code,
+to facilitate the use of Microsoft’s
+<code>CRTDLL.DLL</code> — and
+later <code>MSVCRT.DLL</code> — as
+the primary run‑time support for a native MS‑Windows port
of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), and its supporting utilities,
(which, in turn, were originally provided by Jan‑Jaap van der Heijden).
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all named source and object files which refer to it,
<em>and</em> , if any library refers to another,
that the <em>referring</em>  library is named <em>before</em> 
-any to which it refers; (note: in the event of circular
-references among libraries — a design fault —
-this may require some libraries to be named more than once).
+any to which it refers; (note: in the event of circular references among
+libraries — a design fault — this
+may require some libraries to be named more than once).
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<p>Moreover, if any named library cannot be found in the
linker’s default search path, you may also need to specify