Difference between gcc and Mingw32-gcc

[mahaju]

Hello
This is not exactly related to codeblocks but I'm sure people here will know about this or at least be able to point me towards where I can find more detailed information
What is the difference between gcc and mingw32-gcc
When I build programs from codeblocks I see that it uses mingw32-gcc instead of gcc, but it seems the command line options invoked by codeblocks are still same as gcc
and I have already read

What's the difference between gcc and mingw32-gcc?

    * The mingw32-gcc, mingw32-g++, etc. binaries exist as an aid to cross development. They are created in a typical build of gcc. They are therefore distributed as the maintainers of GCC meant them to be. The gcc.exe indicates that the binary produces binaries for a target equal to the build, while the mingw32-gcc binary produces binaries to be executed on the mingw32 target.

from http://www.mingw.org/wiki/FAQ and I don't understand what that means
Could you kindly explain it to me?
Thank you very much

[ollydbg]

GCC originally comes from the Linux world, and mingw-gcc is a GCC porting to Windows, and running under Windows. That's ALL I can say.

[MortenMacFly]

What's the difference between gcc and mingw32-gcc?
   * The mingw32-gcc, mingw32-g++, etc. binaries exist as an aid to cross development. They are created in a typical build of gcc. They are therefore distributed as the maintainers of GCC meant them to be. The gcc.exe indicates that the binary produces binaries for a target equal to the build, while the mingw32-gcc binary produces binaries to be executed on the mingw32 target.

from http://www.mingw.org/wiki/FAQ and I don't understand what that means

Why don't you ask at http://www.mingw.org/wiki/FAQ?

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3. Is your problem library, framework specific? There are appropriate forums for it, not the Code::Blocks forum.

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