Wanted to learn a little C++ and have no clue how to download MinGW

[BigToque]

I'm looking at the MinGW download page and I'd like to know if I'm supposed to download each of the files listed under "Current"?

At the top of the page is this:

However, in mid-2001 the team began publishing a single-archive "MinGW distribution"... bundling the latest versions of key individual packages available at the time of release.

So WTF is the single file "Distribution"? I can't find it on mingw.org or SourceForge.

Am I blind?

 

[Todd33]

I think you just want the MSYS exe:

http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10.exe?download

It's been a few years since I tried it. You might also want to try Visual Studio Express:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/

 

[Aikouka]

Or you could get Bloodshed Dev-C++ which I think uses the MinGW library.

 

[tfinch2]

Just download Dev-C++

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Just download Dev-C++

QFT, Dev-C++ is really good.

 

[pcnerd37]

Visual Studio FTW!

 

[DarkKnight69]

Originally posted by: pcnerd37
Visual Studio FTW!

I love VS.NET!

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
Bloodshed Dev-C++.

:thumbsup:

and BigToque, if you are looking to learn C++, have a look at my old C++ prof. online supplemental notes, he did a real good job laying it out for beginners:

http://orca.st.usm.edu/~aspurgeo/

 

[A5]

Dev-C++ is good, until you want to write threaded programs (MinGW doesn't have the libraries to support it). Once you get to that, you can use Cygwin or VC++ Express Edition. If you want to learn to write programs for Windows, you might just want to start with VC++, it's free and won't limit what you do for a long time.

 

[CTho9305]

I'd definitely recommend using Visual C++ Express Edition. Having a real debugger, rather than an archaic torture tool that happens to sort of kind of work as a debugger (gdb), will help you a LOT.