From 547dcb15b24dd257117a9a33200056d628c55612 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SpaceIm <30052553+SpaceIm@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 01:36:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] document conan.tools.gnu.is_mingw()

---
 reference/conanfile/tools/gnu.rst       |  1 +
 reference/conanfile/tools/gnu/mingw.rst | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 reference/conanfile/tools/gnu/mingw.rst

diff --git a/reference/conanfile/tools/gnu.rst b/reference/conanfile/tools/gnu.rst
index 5984334071c..0bba1e4f247 100644
--- a/reference/conanfile/tools/gnu.rst
+++ b/reference/conanfile/tools/gnu.rst
@@ -14,5 +14,6 @@ conan.tools.gnu
    gnu/autotoolsdeps
    gnu/autotoolstoolchain
    gnu/autotools
+   gnu/mingw
    gnu/pkgconfigdeps
    gnu/pkgconfig
diff --git a/reference/conanfile/tools/gnu/mingw.rst b/reference/conanfile/tools/gnu/mingw.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ab2a675e407
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reference/conanfile/tools/gnu/mingw.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+.. _conan_tools_gnu_mingw:
+
+conan.tools.gnu.is_mingw()
+--------------------------
+
+Available since: `1.56.0 <https://github.com/conan-io/conan/releases/tag/1.56.0>`_
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    def is_mingw(conanfile):
+
+Check whether ``self.settings`` is a MinGW compiler.
+It returns ``True`` when host os is ``Windows`` and host compiler is ``gcc`` or ``clang``
+and ``compiler.runtime`` is not set, otherwise returns ``False``.
+When the ``compiler`` is empty, it returns ``False``.
+
+Parameters:
+
+- **conanfile**: ConanFile instance.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    from conan.tools.gnu import is_mingw
+
+    def build(self):
+        if is_mingw(self):
+            # some logic to build with mingw

From 7e42d7f6a676086424d51057dfc4346430215c61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SpaceIm <30052553+SpaceIm@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 17:57:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] maybe in 1.57.0?

---
 reference/conanfile/tools/gnu/mingw.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/reference/conanfile/tools/gnu/mingw.rst b/reference/conanfile/tools/gnu/mingw.rst
index ab2a675e407..739c8916b3a 100644
--- a/reference/conanfile/tools/gnu/mingw.rst
+++ b/reference/conanfile/tools/gnu/mingw.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 conan.tools.gnu.is_mingw()
 --------------------------
 
-Available since: `1.56.0 <https://github.com/conan-io/conan/releases/tag/1.56.0>`_
+Available since: `1.57.0 <https://github.com/conan-io/conan/releases/tag/1.57.0>`_
 
 .. code-block:: python