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  • lordsox Posted 2011-12-21
    Great stuff.... *thumbs up* ;-)
  • oid-3630509 Posted 2011-11-22
    No doubt the Fortran compiler in this system is good, but there seems to be a complete lack of any documentation at all (in spite of searching for it from some time), so it is impossible to find out how it operates. This all has a quaintly 1980's retro feel about it ... perhaps this system needs a little updating.
  • hansfn Posted 2011-10-29
    MinGW/MSYS have always been good tools, but the Automated MinGW Installer made it so much easier to get started and keeping up to date. Give it a try!
  • dkls Posted 2011-10-07
    Free Unix-like GCC + shell environment for native Windows development.
  • naim94a Posted 2011-08-19
    Best Free Compiler Ever! I just wished is had 64-bit support...
  • shadevampire Posted 2011-06-05
    I use it with Qt Creator under windows, best collaboration :)
  • oid-3317616 Posted 2011-03-31
    I'm just looking to learn to C and write network programs to learn. I was referred to MinGW for its ease. This site was inviting but the download is all over the place, theres several kinds of downloads all over each other. MinGW as a whole is all in pieces, and the autoinstaller is terrible it didn't do squat. A bunch of errors during update from sync repositories. To be honest i dont know what im doing... and this site/program are of no help.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • shushing Posted 2011-03-20
    A good project.It makes easy to compile for windows.
  • sujiewen Posted 2011-03-01
    ./configure: line 3043: syntax error near unexpected token `CHECK,' ./configure: line 3043: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(CHECK, check >= 0.9.4, HAVE_CHECK=yes , HAVE_CHECK=no)' 最近的mingw/msys执行autogen.sh错误 我现在编译工程是:xcb-win32
  • starker Posted 2011-02-25
    Great application i will recommend it to everyone.
  • yodaj Posted 2011-02-25
    good job
  • nl90780a Posted 2011-02-19
    Simply perfect to port my GTK+ applications from Linux!! I recommend! It could be bit tricky at start but everything will be just fine after red some doc's and tutorials about the subject.
  • ollydbg Posted 2011-02-08
    best compiler under windows
  • winzig45 Posted 2011-02-05
    I like this because then I don't need to download CygWin if all I need is to compile some perl modules. I would recommend an off-line installer though for system that don't have a connection to the Internet please. Similar to what CygWin allows.
  • alex_dacosta Posted 2011-01-21
    The project is now unusable. Impossible to install ! I had to switch back to cygwin for some project, but it not a solution. Please Make It Simple !
  • lefameuxmarc Edited 2013-11-27
    MSYS was a really a great tool before mingw-get.exe^^ ISA firewall-proxy (with authentication) aren't handled... i do have the ip of the firewall-proxy set in 'internet options'. i can use internet explorer on sourceforge (my proxy then prompts for my login/password to access internet resources) but mingw-get isn't prompting for those credentials:( As far as i know, for "Basic authentication", such ISA firewall-proxy requires to encode the following string in base64: NTLMdomain\\login:password and set the property "Proxy-Authorization" in the header of the HTTP request with that ntlm-credential base64-encoded.
  • alucardqc Posted 2010-12-30
    I just updated to the new version of MinGW and omg I love it, the new installer is very straightfoward (but lacks individual package selection as others have stated) and finally the gdb is now part of it. But the best improvement is in the new compiler, the new warnings are very usefull and the new gdb works like a charm right out of the box. Keep it up MinGW team, you are doing great!
  • rena2012 Posted 2010-12-15
    This is the best compiler for windows. I was searching for a good compiler for my softwares, and MinGW is the best option. With MinGW my life is easier, much more than with Cygwin, Borland C++ or Visual C++. Don't stop updating it! You are the best!
  • gmpundlik Posted 2010-11-13
    The software itself is great, but its installer is a BIG let down. Why did these guys not offer a unified single installer download? The get-inst breaks often, one has no idea whether this install is 5MB or 500MB, there are no progress indications of any kind. I am already at it for at least 3 hours on a 512k line and still not sure how long it will take, or complete at all.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • coderx7 Posted 2010-11-09
    as the other users mentioned go to http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/ and save yourself a headache ! its such a great package . Great Job :) (^^ر)
  • hafidmr Posted 2010-10-29
    gnu es necesario para mantener el peso en la balanza
  • md-fr Posted 2010-10-14
    It is very good to have an automatic installer, but could there be more choice and in particular a choice between a 64bits MinGW and the usual 32 bits version ???
  • oid-3040932 Posted 2010-08-31
    The previous version (5.1.6) had a relatively clean Windows installer interface, but the new version is completely different and totally opaque. I had a working installation and all I wanted to do was add gdb, but now I have this nightmare of 1990s style command line downloads and builds with no coherent documentation and no support. What gives here?
  • theodds Posted 2010-07-14
    It's as good as ever. And now that the downloads are regrouped, it's much easier to find what you need.
  • barberio Posted 2010-07-12
    Used to be quite useful for creating a build enviroment on windows. Has now become intensly user hostile, due to a sudden change in project management. The new structure has split things up into a package managed system. However, they have not actually got a working package manager yet. Rather than maintain their old install path, they insist on asking the user to manually download the many different files, to unpack and install them by hand. Including running their install scripts when needed. They also have poorly updated documentation and support to get you through what's needed.