Microbits » mingw http://microbits.info Random thoughts about programming, gaming, and the world. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:43:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 MinGW http://microbits.info/index.php/2010/01/mingw http://microbits.info/index.php/2010/01/mingw#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:47:59 +0000 recon http://microbits.info/?p=434 After needing a copy of MinGW to compile some C code, I was somewhat annoyed to find that their all in one installer is now considered “deprecated”. That meant I had to download and extract 15 packages manually (two of them were even compressed as .lzma).

Why anyone would compress a package designed for Windows in .lzma format? The only way to extract it is with a command line sdk tool. Even on Linux, distributing archives in .lzma format is a little strange.

Anyhow, to save everyone the trouble, here’s a package (includes C, C++ and all necessary tools) in .7z format (which can be extracted by 7-Zip, the best file archiver for Windows) -> MinGW Compiler Package (202).

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