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A native Windows port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)

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  • Posted by Malo Pomalu — 2012-05-05

    Really, the only way to go.

  • Posted by Lato Ponti — 2012-05-02

    Very good open source project. Superb job.

  • Posted by Hans Fr. Nordhaug — 2011-10-29

    MinGW/MSYS have always been good tools, but the Automated MinGW Installer made it so much easier to get started and keeping up to date. Give it a try!

  • Posted by Pedro Santos — 2011-02-19

    Simply perfect to port my GTK+ applications from Linux!! I recommend! It could be bit tricky at start but everything will be just fine after red some doc's and tutorials about the subject.

  • Posted by Brian Little — 2011-02-05

    I like this because then I don't need to download CygWin if all I need is to compile some perl modules. I would recommend an off-line installer though for system that don't have a connection to the Internet please. Similar to what CygWin allows.

  • Posted by Marc-Andre — 2010-12-30

    I just updated to the new version of MinGW and omg I love it, the new installer is very straightfoward (but lacks individual package selection as others have stated) and finally the gdb is now part of it. But the best improvement is in the new compiler, the new warnings are very usefull and the new gdb works like a charm right out of the box. Keep it up MinGW team, you are doing great!

  • Posted by Lord Evil — 2010-12-15

    This is the best compiler for windows. I was searching for a good compiler for my softwares, and MinGW is the best option. With MinGW my life is easier, much more than with Cygwin, Borland C++ or Visual C++. Don't stop updating it! You are the best!

  • Posted by Michel DEVEL — 2010-10-14

    It is very good to have an automatic installer, but could there be more choice and in particular a choice between a 64bits MinGW and the usual 32 bits version ???

  • Posted by Pasi Ruokola — 2010-07-14

    It's as good as ever. And now that the downloads are regrouped, it's much easier to find what you need.

  • Posted by bebR — 2010-05-20

    This is the best compiler for Windows, because it makes native executables and it is lightweight compared to others. For people who don't know what to download or how to install, please, a wiki exists, there is a read-me with each package, telling which dependencies you need, so read them !

  • Posted by John Richard Barberio — 2010-07-12

    Used to be quite useful for creating a build enviroment on windows. Has now become intensly user hostile, due to a sudden change in project management. The new structure has split things up into a package managed system. However, they have not actually got a working package manager yet. Rather than maintain their old install path, they insist on asking the user to manually download the many different files, to unpack and install them by hand. Including running their install scripts when needed. They also have poorly updated documentation and support to get you through what's needed.

  • Posted by OpenID User — 2010-08-31

    The previous version (5.1.6) had a relatively clean Windows installer interface, but the new version is completely different and totally opaque. I had a working installation and all I wanted to do was add gdb, but now I have this nightmare of 1990s style command line downloads and builds with no coherent documentation and no support. What gives here?

  • Posted by Andrew Fenn — 2010-05-31

    I really want to see this project succeed however how it is currently run at the moment I doubt it will. There should be a download link on the front page so you know exactly what you need to download. As of this time you go to the getting started page and it recommends you manually download everything however the "MinGW Download Page" under manual downloads is empty. Awesome! If the new automated installer does yet work then the old one should not be considered deprecated. I don't see how they think people will use their project if you have to manually download many different files. The code is stored in an out dated CVS format. It's 2010, we have much better tools already... All discussion is done on mailing lists rather then on forums which would be ok if source forge's mailing list interface wasn't so bad awful. This obviously prevents people from getting involved and I've seen others complain about this too. There seems to be a movement to creating yet another package manager rather then just porting over something that already exists such as dpkg. Most of the discussion I've read on the list seems to be bickering over styles and formatting guidelines. Since this new package manager already has people working on it there doesn't seem to be an easy way to get involved at all. It has very little documented about it on the site. All in all this project really needs to get a lot more professional about how it handles things. Better documentation, better communication, easy steps on downloading and using the binaries. If these aren't done it's going to continue being irrelevant until something like Microsoft's CoApp completely kill the project.

  • Posted by Girish Pundlik — 2010-11-13

    The software itself is great, but its installer is a BIG let down. Why did these guys not offer a unified single installer download? The get-inst breaks often, one has no idea whether this install is 5MB or 500MB, there are no progress indications of any kind. I am already at it for at least 3 hours on a 512k line and still not sure how long it will take, or complete at all.

  • Posted by Russ Gibson — 2010-01-17

    Not the most straight-forward install, but once you figure it out, it works quite well. Since it uses the vc++ runtime, few issues with windows interaction (unlike cygwin, which has it's uses too).

  • Posted by OpenID User — 2011-03-31

    I'm just looking to learn to C and write network programs to learn. I was referred to MinGW for its ease. This site was inviting but the download is all over the place, theres several kinds of downloads all over each other. MinGW as a whole is all in pieces, and the autoinstaller is terrible it didn't do squat. A bunch of errors during update from sync repositories. To be honest i dont know what im doing... and this site/program are of no help.

  • Posted by Alexandre Da Costa — 2011-01-21

    The project is now unusable. Impossible to install ! I had to switch back to cygwin for some project, but it not a solution. Please Make It Simple !

  • Posted by OpenID User — 2009-11-29

    it really does the job done

  • Posted by Victor — 5 days ago

    Cool project! recommend!

  • Posted by Dann Corbit — 2012-05-21

    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.

  • Posted by dzikes — 2012-05-08

    Great software, simple and easy to install

  • Posted by wicenki — 2012-05-06

    Works perfectly in every way, great soft!

  • Posted by Vasya Galkin — 2012-05-02

    Used to be quite useful for creating a build enviroment on windows. Has now become intensly user hostile, due to a sudden change in project management.

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