MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows
A native Windows port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
Description
MinGW: A native Windows port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), with freely distributable import libraries and header files for building native Windows applications; includes extensions to the MSVC runtime to support C99 functionality. All of MinGW's software will execute on the 64bit Windows platforms.
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Installation for Windows sucks so much! I cant believe that it can be so frustrating!
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Once was a great environment, faster than cygwin, integrated better with windows. Now has moved to a clicky installer that has been fundamentally broken for YEARS now, and without it now even harder to install than gnuwin32. And since it hasn't been updated since April, I must assume it's been effectively abandoned. Avoid. Absolutely avoid.
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I tried to compile the sample code available below but it failed. msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366051(v=vs.85).aspx C:\>g++ IcmpSendEcho2.cpp IcmpSendEcho2.cpp:3:21: fatal error: icmpapi.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated.
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Unusable! The Download MinGW link fetches "x86-mingw32-build-1.0-sh.tar.bz2", which contains some Unix scripts. According to the README a compiler and tools need to already be installed. Catch-22. I downloaded "GCC for Windows" because I don't have a compiler. Give us a proper installation program!
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Web install is so wrong.. Classical installer was working fine.. web installer won't work in most business environnement because of firewall-proxies.
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The 64 bit stuff has not been functional for me for quite some time. It used to be easy to install and use it, but now I just get errors. Perhaps it is the 64 bit Windows server 2008 environment or something else, but I am no longer able to use it for anything useful. Too bad, I used to really like it.
