GNU C Compiler and MinGW

[Douglas]

Hey all,

I'm new here and would like to be sure I get into the right thread with these tools. Can anyone please direct me?

[Duthomhas]

Get the msi installer from their site. It will download and install all the proper stuff.

Otherwise, you'll have to do it manually, which isn't that difficult, but requires knowledge of the command-line and having some specific tools (zip, tar, etc) available. If you install the latest version of 7zip you can extract anything they have there.

Just create a C:\MinGW directory and put all your downloaded files there. Extract them one by one until done. Then you can delete the .zip, .exe, etc files you downloaded.

Make sure to get:
  gcc-core
  gcc-g++
  mingw-runtime
  mingw-utils
  binutils
  mingw32-make
  w32api

It does not matter what order you extract them.


You may also want to get the MSYS package. This is a POSIX compatibility layer for compiling stuff built to be compiled on Linux systems (using autoconf and the like). If you do get this, be sure to install it in a different directory than MinGW, and to install it after you install MinGW. Also, I can't stand the wonky "M" icon that comes with it. If you want something better, let me know.

Hope this helps.

[Douglas]

Yes I have used that one from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/

No I think the manual install will get you to install an updated system and help you use the tools that unzip the files. 7zip would work but it does not tell you where to put the files like gzip and lzma. After all there is a whole website devoted to getting one started.

http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started

I just wanted to be sure I had the right place here to bring up such topics for using this gcc and the libraries that it (projects) can be compiled against.

I've figured out some things but still have trouble with finding the libs/dll s for getting GL/gl.h and
others to work.

I'm still learning and hope we may help each other work things out. I'm reading this book for now :

http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/index.html

Just let me know if there is a better or more appropriate thread to post at as that is all I'm not sure of at this time. Thanks!


The things that I am most interested in are gtk+, OpenGL, and SDL for C/C++. I have worked with them in Ruby and find them very useful. I want to also check about Fox Tool Kit.