[Mingw-users] installation package or automated installer for gcc-4.[45]?

[Daniel F. <fra...@gm...>]

Hi all.

This must have been asked a gazillion times, but I''m unable to find a
satisfactory answer: Is there an all-in-one-one-click installation
package of mingw that comes with a reasonable recent version of gcc
(4.4 or 4.5) that also allows to pull in optional packages easily? All
I need is make, gcc and for ease of use, all of the msys packages
listed at sourceforge (autoconf, automake, m4, regex, pthreads, ....).

http://mingw.org/wiki/HOWTO_Install_the_MinGW_GCC_Compiler_Suite
Was last updated July 2008 and describes a somewhat strange manual
procedure that's also flagged as unsupported. By now I managed to find
gcc-4.5...lzma files deeply hidden in the directory structure on the
download pages on sourceforge - but I can not believe that users are
required to download a multitude of packages first to then unpack and
install them manually. I must have overlooked something?!

After wasting a couple of hours and getting nowhere, could someone
please point me to such an all-in-one-one-click-all-shiny installation
package or, if really not available, to a fully supported step-by-step
installation procedure?

Many thanks

      Daniel