In this blog post, I'm excited to introduce a recent project of mine aimed at simplifying the often intricate process of setting up and configuring the MinGW environment. It's no secret that navigating the complexities of MinGW installation can be daunting, especially for newcomers. Many budding developers find themselves overwhelmed and discouraged at this initial stage. With this project, my goal is to eliminate these barriers by providing a user-friendly MinGW installer. This installer is designed to streamline the process, equipping users with a fully functional environment that includes the latest GCC version and other essential production packages.
This installer is bundled with essential and commonly used packages which includes:
- GCC
- GDB
- MinGW-w64 (linked with ucrt)
- GNU Binutils
- GNU Make
- PExports
- dos2unix
- Yasm
- NASM
- JWasm
- ccache
- CMake
- ninja
- Doxygen
- Universal Ctags
- Cppcheck
Thread model: posix
Runtime library: UCRT (Windows 10 or higher, or when Update for Universal C Runtime is installed on older Windows versions, not supported on systems older than Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1)
- Download the
exefile from github release or webpage - Run the downloaded
exefile. - Read
Version Info(Optional) - Click
Next - Click
Install.
By following these simple steps, you'll complete the setup process, and your MinGW environment will be ready to use.
Thats it. You've successfully completed the setup.
Video Tutorial
Easy.MinGW.Installer.Tutorial.Project.mp4
To ensure your newly set up MinGW environment is functioning seamlessly, follow these quick verification steps:
- Open terminal/cmd
- Type
gcc -vand hitEnter - You will see some texts and versions like below
Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=C:\MinGW64\bin\gcc.exe COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=C:/MinGW64/bin/../libexec/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/13.2.0/lto-wrapper.exe OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none Target: x86_64-w64-mingw32 Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/R/winlibs64ucrt_stage/inst_gcc-13.2.0/share/gcc --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --with-pkgversion='MinGW-W64 x86_64-ucrt-posix-seh, built by Brecht Sanders' --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --enable-threads=posix --disable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-serial-configure --disable-bootstrap --enable-host-shared --enable-plugin --disable-default-ssp --disable-rpath --disable-libstdcxx-debug --disable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-stabs --disable-symvers --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,lto,objc,obj-c++ --disable-gold --disable-nls --disable-stage1-checking --disable-win32-registry --disable-multilib --enable-ld --enable-libquadmath --enable-libada --enable-libssp --enable-libstdcxx --enable-lto --enable-fully-dynamic-string --enable-libgomp --enable-graphite --enable-mingw-wildcard --enable-libstdcxx-time --enable-libstdcxx-pch --with-mpc=/d/Prog/winlibs64ucrt_stage/custombuilt --with-mpfr=/d/Prog/winlibs64ucrt_stage/custombuilt --with-gmp=/d/Prog/winlibs64ucrt_stage/custombuilt --with-isl=/d/Prog/winlibs64ucrt_stage/custombuilt --disable-libstdcxx-backtrace --enable-install-libiberty --enable-__cxa_atexit --without-included-gettext --with-diagnostics-color=auto --enable-clocale=generic --with-libiconv --with-system-zlib --with-build-sysroot=/R/winlibs64ucrt_stage/gcc-13.2.0/build_mingw/mingw-w64 CFLAGS='-I/d/Prog/winlibs64ucrt_stage/custombuilt/include/libdl-win32 -Wno-int-conversion -march=nocona -msahf -mtune=generic -O2' CXXFLAGS='-Wno-int-conversion -march=nocona -msahf -mtune=generic -O2' LDFLAGS='-pthread -Wl,--no-insert-timestamp -Wl,--dynamicbase -Wl,--high-entropy-va -Wl,--nxcompat -Wl,--tsaware' Thread model: posix Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd gcc version 13.2.0 (MinGW-W64 x86_64-ucrt-posix-seh, built by Brecht Sanders)
Remember the versions you see might be different from these depending on when you follow this post.
If the output matches above, congratulations! Your MinGW installation/setup is successfully done.