How To install MinGW on Windows 10 (GCC & G++)

This is a short guide on how to install MinGW and MSYS using the latest stable.

Run it and install MinGW. Only the basic package is strictly needed for Cython, although you might want to grab at least the C++ compiler as well.

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[ChiflyID]

You've saved my life. I used to work on MacOS and now I'm currently programming on Windows. This helped me a lot. Thx! <3

[yvindSb]

Thanks, I was getting lost in these Visual Studio C++ compilers with unorganized documentation. MinGW was just what I was looking for. Thanks for showing us this easy solution.

[alexmoroianu]

THANK YOU !!! Man I would never have completed this quest without you, thank you so much, everything was exactly as you said, your video is absolutely perfect ; thanks again :)

[thegordon]

Dude, thanks a lot, I tried a bunch of different tutorials but yours was the only one that worked.

[jvpommeren]

Thanks for the tutorial! Short note: in my case I needed to reboot Windows to get GCC to work after adding its path to the system variables.

[marcioelias]

25/5000
Straight to the point! Congratulations

[nintendoblood]

I was startled and thought this compiler was malware when I went to install it from this sketchy ass site... Why can the devs not spell "licence"?... I've always used mingw with codeblocks, and have never had to come into direct contact with it.


Thank you for this video, and thank you for communicating clearly and not being a douche.

[jonathanflores]

After 2 hours I finally fixed it!! Thank you Sir!! you helped me so much!!

[dou]

Thank you so much~!!! It is a perfect tutorial. Finally I can build codes on cmd.

[scramjet]

Good video. To get latest features, sometimes need to use the switch -std=c++11 for C++ 11 or -std=c++14 for C++ 14, etc.

[sharkdavid]

Thanks for the help. Very clean and thorough!

[laudexter]

Thank you so much!


The part at 11:10 really helped me. I didn't know you had to click new to add a path.i was adding paths via the semicolon method and it did not work

[andrewredman]

Thanks a million this was so confusing for me at first.

[pigini]

in the c++ code, before int main, you can type:
using namespace std;
with that you don't have to type std:: everytime before cout and endl;

[kazeyomi]

Oh my god, for Linux just "apt-get install g++"

[jacksonsummers]

When listing files from a specific folder, if LS does not execute, DIR may need to be used. DIR is the MS DOS version of LS, which lists the files and folders in the current directory.

[crispwhite]

🚨WARNING🚨You're supposed to edit the user variable path not the system variable path!

[kennethhudgins]

For windows 8.1 users looking to compile in atom, this guys video shows you how to change your path in windows 8.1 because it looks slightly different than win 10 and I'm glad it worked without fucking anything up.

[ghusse]

thank u for your tutorial sir, it was very helpful

[paragroy]

Thanks a lot for the really amazing.. helped me a lot