Hello Ben! On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Ben Key <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the best way to install Mingw-w64 without installing Cygwin? Or is > Cygwin the only supported environment?
First off, mingw-w64 does not need cygwin. The whole purpose of mingw-w64 is to build native windows applications and have the compiler run natively on windows (although mingw-w64 offers other versions that will cross-compile native windows applications from other hosts). By native I mean that the applications you build (and the compiler) run directly on (64-bit) windows, rather than linux, or something, and don't need any kind of unix emulation layer (such as cygwin). Note, your applications can make use of the standard c and c++ libraries and the windows api, but mingw-w64 doesn't provide support for non-windows posix facilities such as symbolic links unix-style shared memory. A very good way (I think it's the best.) to install mingw-w64 is to download one of the builds from the mingw-w64 sourceforge site, unzip it into a directory of your choice (one without spaces in the path name), add the bin directory (i.e. C:\mingw_unzip\mingw64\bin) to your path, and start compiling things. Works like a champ. (Thanks to the mingw-w64 team for their efforts!) > Thanks. Good luck. K. Frank ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
