Installing MinGW to build C++ Code on Windows

In this video, we guide you through installing the MinGW toolkit to compile C++ on a Windows machine in Visual Studio Code.*

0:00 Introduction
0:14 MinGW Explained
0:41 Downloading VS Code and the C++ Extension
0:57 Downloading the MSYS2 Installer
1:16 Installing the MinGW Toolkit*
1:44 Editing the PATH Environment Variable
2:24 Verify Compiler Installation via Command Pallette
2:44 Verify Compiler Installation via Select IntelliSense Configuration

*COMMAND LINE for Installing the MinGW Toolkit:
pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-toolchain

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[Goodguy]

Thanks Vs code and Mr Tarik for making my life easier. I was trying to configure the compiler from past 2 days. But finally have configured it now. Thank you once more.

[wribbit]

Awesome.. concise, with all the info needed to get started. All instructional videos should be like this :)

[ChrisP]

This video was very clear and easy to follow. Excellent.

[sahilundirwade]

Thanks a lot Mr. Tarik and the VS Code community! This video helped a lot.😃

[pchandrahas]

Not able to find the selections what you showed on for 'Edit Environment selection' .. I am already using VsCode for Python.. Do I need to change anything else?

[SinisterStudyStream-werw]

Thank you so much man. This video was incredibly helpful

[sadiqshaikh]

Thank you so much, after being stuck with this for 5 hours and 69420 errors the installer gave me, I can't express how grateful I am to this tutorial

[xcvrony]

sir, i followed all your steps but when i used command > for checking if i had the compiler so i didnt find it (no things showed)

[PrateekAgrawal-tvog]

I had been stuck on it for 2 years, finally landed on this video and my problem is solved. Damn!
Thanks a lot!!

[acesgaming]

Thank you thank you so much
I have been trying to set up vs code since 3 days and almost tried 20 times with various methods but couldn't.
But after watching your video I solved the problem in first trying.

[htdwmqs]

Sir I am facing a problem in the command prompt, after I type gcc --version it says 'gcc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[seikharishuddin]

Thank you so much man. This video was incredibly helpful. Its a relief to able to use VS for C

[lufog]

Unable to resolve configuration with compilerPath "e:\foo\bar\Makefile". Using "cl.exe" instead. :/

[kurtenkera]

I'm having issues running C++ code that uses LAPACK? Should I download necessary LAPACK libraries/packages from MSYS2 and then save the corresponding .dll files in the same directory as the 'path variable' (i.e., the same directory as the compiler)?

[iprswvi]

my version is 6.3.0 is that a good thing or I should update it. If I should, how do I do that?

[aashirafiq]

Thank you vs code ;
the only video on yt, that solved the problem .
the part at 2:45 solved the issue that was causing hinderance in the output,
thanks once again .

[lonewolf]

perfect now i can start my journey of hard coding in cpp

[uqcfddy]

I have some unknown error in Msys2
Yours said at bottom 58/58 but mine had some extra errors
& Now when I check in Command prompt the version doesn't show up

What do I do??

[AhmedAbdullah-qfou]

At 2:24 in the command prompt it shows that (gcc is not recognized as an internal or external command ), what should I Do now ?

[vaibhavsingh]

this helped me in a sticky situation. thanks man