Compiling using MingGW-w64 for both 32-bit and 64-bit

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The objective will be to try to use the MingGW-w64 toolchain instead of the standard MingW since it has support for both 32-bit and 64-bit compiling. Note: We are not successful yet, but just writing down our steps as we go along.

Details of the prefixes of files can be found at ​What to download

MingW-w64 site is ​http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net

If you are on 64-bit Windows download one of the binary packages from ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Automated%20Builds/ with name starting with mingw-w64-1.0-bin_i686-mingw_

If you are on 32-bit Windows download one of the binary packages from ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/ with name starting with mingw-w32-1.0-bin_i686-mingw_