MinGW means Minimalist GNU for Windows: GNU is a source of open source programming tools (GNU stands for GNU is Not Unix).
In this handout you will download the files needed by GNU C++; in the next you will download a version of Eclipse that is already set up to use MinGW.
You may want to print these instructions before proceeding, so that you can refer to them while downloading and installing MinGW.Or, just keep this document in your browser.You should read each step completely before performing the action that it describes.
You can install this software anywhere, but I recommend installing it in the default directory: C:\MinGW.
Click Continue.
The following pop-up window will appear, showing the downloading progress. After about a minute, it should appear as follows.
Click Continue.
The following pop-up window will appear. Ensure on the left that Basic Setup is highlighted. Click the three boxes indicated below: mingw32-base, mingw32-gcc=g++, msys-base. After clicking each, select Mark for selection. This window should appear as follows.
Terminate (click X on) the MinGW Installation Manager (I know this is weird).
The following pop-up window should appear
Click Review Change
The following pop-up window should appear
Click Apply.
The following pop-up window will appear, showing the downloading progress.
After a while (a few minutes to an hour, depending on your download speed), it should start extracting the donwloaded files. A few minutes after that, the following pop-up window should appear.
Click Close.
Edit Path so that the MinGW and MSYSM software is findable by Eclipse.
Click Start
Click Control Panel
Click System
Click Advance system settings; you will see
Click Enviroment Variables...; you will see
In the System variables (lower) part, scroll to line starting with Path and click that line. IMPORTANT: Even though you see a highlighted PATH in the User variables (top part) look for Path (not CLASSPATH) in the lower part to change it.
Click Edit...
Copy C:\MinGW\bin;C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin; (include everything from C to ;) and then paste it at the very start of the Variable Value text entry.
When done it should look like
Click OK (3 times)
MinGW is now installed.You are now ready to install Eclipse....But it is probaby a good idea to reboot your machine first, to ensure the new path is correct.
MinGW is a collection of tools and libraries that provide a C/C++ development environment for Windows. It includes a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), which can compile C/C++ code into native Windows executables without requiring a Unix emulation layer.
MinGW ("Minimalist GNU for Windows"), formerly mingw32, is a free and open source software development environment to create Microsoft Windows applications.
After the installation of MinGW is finished. To check if it is installed or not, open Command Prompt and type g++ — version. The MinGW compiler (GCC) is not being detected by the command prompt because the environment path variable has not been set.
It is essential that the installation path does not contain any spaces. Therefore, you cannot install MinGW-w64 in Program Files. We recommend to create a folder mingw-w64 on your system drive (e.g., C:\mingw). Install a current version and specify win32 as thread when requested.
Find the Visual Studio Installer on your computer. ...
Click or tap to start the installer, and then choose "Modify"
From the Workloads screen, check if "Desktop Development with C++" workload is activated and if "Windows 11 SDK" is enabled like in the following image.
To install a C++ compiler in a Windows environment, download the Microsoft's "Visual Studio" from the Visual Studio website. This will download a full IDE, including an editor, debugger and build systems.
To access your C++ compiler follow the C++ section in Visual Studio's Getting Started guide.
MinGW-w64 is a compiler suite for Windows based on the GNU tool chain. It includes a GCC compiler and related tools for compiling C and C++ applications for Windows. C and C++ applications compiled with MinGW-w64 GCC can be called from MATLAB using MEX.
In the Windows search bar, type Settings to open your Windows Settings. Search for Edit environment variables for your account. In your User variables, select the Path variable and then select Edit. Select New and add the MinGW-w64 destination folder you recorded during the installation process to the list.
You can install the C/C++ extension by searching for 'c++' in the Extensions view (Ctrl+Shift+X). Install the Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) compiler toolset. If you have a recent version of Visual Studio, open the Visual Studio Installer from the Windows Start menu and verify that the C++ workload is checked.
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