Which distribution of MinGW does everyone use?
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There are two major distributions of MinGW that I know of.
1. The Official Build from the MinGW team, http://tinyurl.com/65ao33u
2. TDM-MinGW from Twilight Dragon Media, http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/
(other than versions that come bundled with IDEs like Code::Blocks, CodeLite, wxDev-cpp etc...)
Personally, I like the TDM version because it's easier to install the 64bit version, and statically links to libstdc++ by default so I don't have to worry about sending executables to friends ;)
Which one is everyone's preference?
1. The Official Build from the MinGW team, http://tinyurl.com/65ao33u
2. TDM-MinGW from Twilight Dragon Media, http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/
(other than versions that come bundled with IDEs like Code::Blocks, CodeLite, wxDev-cpp etc...)
Personally, I like the TDM version because it's easier to install the 64bit version, and statically links to libstdc++ by default so I don't have to worry about sending executables to friends ;)
Which one is everyone's preference?
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I was led to believe that libstdc++ is implicitly linked by gcc by default. The official build seems to produce a portable executable out of the box. I'm not sure about the 64-bit version, my computer is still behind the times a bit, so 32-bit is still here with me :/.
I have, however, had problems with TDM-MinGW. For one, everytime I try and setup an environment, I get plenty of strange STL errors. When I try and fix them, it gets so confusing I usually give up and go back to my default environment. I haven't tried it for about a year now though, so I might try again since the official build is pulling some fail sauce on me right now T.T.
EDIT: TDM has the same problem. To be expected actually...
I have, however, had problems with TDM-MinGW. For one, everytime I try and setup an environment, I get plenty of strange STL errors. When I try and fix them, it gets so confusing I usually give up and go back to my default environment. I haven't tried it for about a year now though, so I might try again since the official build is pulling some fail sauce on me right now T.T.
EDIT: TDM has the same problem. To be expected actually...
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Just setup TDM. Although it seems to not bring much to the table (even crashes in the same place) the website is a lot more straight forward than the official. The installation is also a tad easier and straight forward. There's even *gasp* version control.
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| libstdc++ is implicitly linked by gcc by default |
It's implicity linked, but it uses a shared library. An executable compiled with vanilla MinGW will fail to start on a different machine that doesn't have MinGW installed.
There's a compiler switch to tell it to use the static library instead, TDM does the opposite and uses the static library by default (which I prefer).
It's funny that you mentionned getting STL errors using TDM, because I was working on some stuff that used some real Template-Fu and was getting odd errors from STL headers, but compiled fine with MSVC++. I tried vanilla MinGW but got the exact same errors. Bug report time!
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http://nuwen.net/mingw.html
I found this guy compiling a more up to date version of MinGW along with rather standard libraries (boost). It's awesome.
I found this guy compiling a more up to date version of MinGW along with rather standard libraries (boost). It's awesome.
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