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MinGW Distribution - February 2012

MinGW is a port of GCC - Gnu Compiler Collection to Microsoft Windows.

This distribution contains a minimum set of tools to compile C or C++ applications and some interesting libraries like Boost Libraries, OpenSSL and zlib. See below for a complete list.

This distribution is based on MinGW Distro from Stephen T. Lavavej with the following modifications: libraries reduced to a minimum (Lavavej's distro contains more libraries), MinGW sed removed, and Gnu GDB debugger and ming32-make included. Only static libraries are included.

MinGW version of sed has problems and cannot be used. If you need a sed (for example for running Autoconf scripts) use the one from MSYS: MSYS sed

Installation Instructions

Just run MinGW-Distro.exe and enter the directory, usually C:\MinGW. Add C:\MinGW\bin to your PATH environment variable. Complete installation takes about 260 Mb of disk space.

Codeblocks Customization

Codeblocks is a cross-platform C++ IDE. If MinGW bin directory is in your path Codeblocks can detect it. Also change the compiler file names:

What is included?

Core

• GCC and G++: 4.6.2
• MinGW runtime: 3.18
• GDB: 7.3-2-mingw32
• binutils: 2.22
• coreutils: 8.15
• diffutils: 3.2
• mingw32-make: 3.81-20090910
• win32api: 3.17-2
• Info-Zip's zip 3.0 and unzip 6.0

Tools

• gendef: 1.0.1346
• grep: 2.9
• gzip and gunzip: 1.2.4a
• patch: 2.6.1
• wget: 1.12

Libraries

• Borland BGI emulation for MinGW
• Boost C++ Libraries: 1.48.0
• bsdtar, bsdcpio and libarchive: 3.0.3
• bzip2 and libzip2: 1.0.6
• Borland-style CONIO for MinGW
• cURL tool and library: 7.24.0
• file tool and libmagic: 5.09
• JPEG library and utilities: 8c
• Public Domain Curses: 3.4
• OpenSSL: 1.0.0f
• PNG reference library: 1.5.7
• SQLite: 3.7.9
• SSH2 library: 1.3.0
• TIFF library and utilities (depends on JPEG and LZMA libraries): 4.0.0
• XML parsing library: 2.7.8
• XSLT transformation library: 1.1.26
• XZ utils and LZMA library: 5.0.3
• zlib compression library: 1.2.5

Add-ons

The following tools and libraries were built with this MinGW distribution but they are not included on it

Download the files and uncompress them on the same directory where MinGW was installed.

• gmp: 5.0.2: GNU MP library
• GraphicsMagick: 1.3.12: image manipulation library
• lzip: 1.12: lzip data compression utility
• poco: 1.4.3p1: POCO libraries
• sdl: 1.2.14: Simple DirectMedia Layer
• sfml: 1.6: Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
• wxWidgets: 2.9.3: cross-platform GUI library

History

• January 25, 2012 - February 2012 edition released: enabled LTO. Updates: OpenSSL 1.0.0f, TIFF 4.0.0, binutils 2.22, coreutils 8.15, diffutils 3.2, cURL 7.24.0. Added Public Domain Curses 3.4, Info-Zip's zip 3.0 and unzip 6.0, bsdtar, bsdcpio and libarchive 3.0.3. Removed 7-Zip
• December 31, 2011 - January 2012 edition released: added libpng, JPEG and TIFF libraries, file and libmagic, SQLite. Also with samples.
• November 29, 2011 - December 2011 edition released: GCC 4.6.2, Boost 1.48 and cURL 7.23.1
• July 18, 2011 - GCC updated to version 4.6.1
• May 16, 2011 - first version released

The official MinGW distribution can be download from MinGW website.

Download

MinGW-Distro.exe (29.6 Mb) - February 2012 Edition

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