Re: [Mingw-users] a novice needs an advice about a dl from sf.net page

[Sergey S. <se...@un...>]

Brecht Sanders wrote:
> I was in the same position many years ago.
> For a while I switched to Dev-C++ 
> (http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html), but ever since I installed 
> Code::Blocks (http://www.codeblocks.org/) I simply no longer need 
> anything else. It's a great IDE, it works perfectly with MinGW, 
> debugging with gdb works and if you use wxWidgets there is even a form 
> designer for it.
Thank you for the advice. Code::Blocks were installed on my PC before I 
wrote my question ;)
My doubts are rather about downloading from 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/

Some stuff is related to MinGW and some to MSYS. Should I download and 
install everything from there? What is a purpose of some package? What 
will be useful in a development process? There is a lot of stuff for 
MSYS there - will I really need all of that? Some guidance from an 
expert is needed. Or, maybe, is a principle easy as that: if you don't 
know you really need something - you needn't it?
Thank you.

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Sincerely Yours,
Sergey Sarbash