Setting up the MinGW 64 environment

This guide is based on the guide from gaia-gis and documents the adjustments i made/had to make when i set up my Mingw64 compiler environment.

My "specs":

• Windows 7, 64 bit
• Service Pack 1

I refer to the blue paragraph titles when describing changes i made.

Setting up the minGW environment

I downloaded minGW64 from here. I already had MSYS 32bit installed, but I used git bash for executing commands to not get confused with the 32 bit libraries that I already had installed.

Step 1) building libiconv

I executed ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32

date: 25-01-2017