Hi, I have been learning C++ recently using Visual Studio and Replit and wanted to switch to using a compiler with the windows command prompt. When I search up how to install MinGW there are multiple tutorials of indian people and other people who use totally different links and download pages in each video and I’m not sure which one to trust. Is msys2.org the correct website or is sourceforge or a different…
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over 1 year ago
Apart from what other people already said, http://msys2.org/ is another easy-to-setup option.
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almost 2 years ago
Also FYI: there’s a project called MSYS2 which derives from Cygwin and seeks to provide a proper set of Unix tools on Windows, including split: https://packages.msys2.org/package/coreutils.
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almost 2 years ago
Still, it isn’t a compiler. You also need to install the Visual Studio build tools, or GCC and/or Clang through MSYS2.
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almost 2 years ago
Download the latest msys2 installer from http://msys2.org/ and run it.
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about 2 years ago
MSYS2 is a software building platform for compiling and building Linux software that work on Windows already, but prefer a Unix-like environment.
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over 2 years ago
Btw to install GCC under Windows easily I recommend MSys2. MinGW is basically just a Windows port of GCC.
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about 3 years ago
When I go to msys2.org I see packages offered which seem to include compilers similar to mine. But I don’t really understand what they are.
I found this definition of msys2: “a collection of tools and libraries providing you with an easy-to-use environment for building, installing and running native Windows software”.
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about 3 years ago
