ahkmingw is a project to compile autohotkey using gcc / mingw on windows. The project was started single handedly by by xx3nvyxx http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/author-xx3nvyxx.html In my effort to port autohotkey to linux, I learned enough to be able to follow xx3nvyxx's instructions for mingw. Also, I removed the dependency on libmsvcr70.a . Hopefully i will be able to slowly remove the remainder of the windows dependencies and transition over to x11.