#54 Another 64bit newbie question

[Richard Ulrich]

Hello,

I've read everything I can find, including https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/download%20filename%20structure, but am still stuck.

I had been using MinGW as installed by mingw-get-inst-20110316.exe. That works fine.

Then I downloaded mingw-w64-1.0-bin_i686-mingw_20110422.zip which seems to be what I need for compiling my program using 64 bit pointers. But then what? That zip file has two folders with identical contents called MinGW and x86_64-w64-mingw32. I tried replacing the old c:\MinGW with the new MinGW, but the command lines calling g++ no longer work; I get:

g++: CreateProcess: No such file or directory

So ... just how do I make the switch?

Thanks,
Richard U.