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Installing GCC (and other GNU features) on Windows 7+

In this little tutorial, we'll be installing some UNIX programs by means of the "Minimal GNU for Windows" suite (MinGW for short) for Windows 7 and up. First, let's get MinGW.

  1. Go to the Sourceforge project page for MinGW32 or MinGW64, and download.
  2. Install in a directory of choice (I personally chose C:/Users/[name]/AppData/Local/MinGW, to not have to install under C:/ but to have it hidden somewhere with write privileges). Note: MinGW64 requires you select an architecture. You'll want to go for x86_64.
  3. Browse to Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environmental Variables -> User Variables, and edit the PATH variable by appending the path of your MinGW's bin/ folder. For MinGW32, this is ;C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Local\MinGW\bin;. For MinGW64, the path should look a little more elaborate.

That's it for MinGW. For MinGW64, gcc should now already be available (after reopening the command prompt). For MinGW32, we now have access to a command-line package installer for various UNIX toolkits. To install the GNU C Compiler (GCC):

  1. Open Windows's cmd.
  2. Execute mingw-get install gcc.

That's it! For this course, you'll need some other utilities. You can get them by specifying each separately, or all at once as we've done below.

mingw-get install mingw-developer-toolkit msys-base mingw32-base

You are now all set up for compiling C on Windows!