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How to install MinGW64 (non of the approaches work)

I am trying to install MinGW64 on Windows 10. Here is what I tried:

Approach 1

Via http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php

I went to http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php/download/win-builds and from there to http://win-builds.org/doku.php/download_and_installation_from_windows where I downloaded Win-builds 1.5.0. I run the exe and let it install everything. When it gets to install mingw64 it says that the Download failed (no further information). What should I do?

Approach 2

Via https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/

I also downloaded mingw-w64-v7.0.0 from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/, extracted the zip but have not idea what to do with the contents:

13.02.2020  13:37                   .gitignore
13.02.2020  13:37            31.032 aclocal.m4
13.02.2020  13:37             2.398 AUTHORS
13.02.2020  13:37    <DIR>          build-aux
13.02.2020  13:37               625 config.h.in
13.02.2020  13:37           123.961 configure
13.02.2020  13:37             3.268 configure.ac
13.02.2020  13:37             2.326 COPYING
13.02.2020  13:37    <DIR>          COPYING.MinGW-w64
13.02.2020  13:37    <DIR>          COPYING.MinGW-w64-runtime
13.02.2020  13:37             2.245 DISCLAIMER
13.02.2020  13:37               454 DISCLAIMER.PD
13.02.2020  13:37               745 Makefile.am
13.02.2020  13:37            25.337 Makefile.in
13.02.2020  13:38    <DIR>          mingw-w64-crt
13.02.2020  13:38    <DIR>          mingw-w64-doc
13.02.2020  13:39    <DIR>          mingw-w64-headers
13.02.2020  13:39    <DIR>          mingw-w64-libraries
13.02.2020  13:39    <DIR>          mingw-w64-tools

Approach 3

From: mingw-w64 installer "the file has been downloaded incorrectly"

In https://stackoverflow.com/a/48519212/4533188 it was said that should download from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/mingw-w64/, so I went there downloaded MinGW-W64-install.exe and ran it. The post says further

Once the compressed file downloaded, you have just to extract and copy/paste the MinGW64 folder( with the pre-compiled librairies) to your chosen folder ( in my case : C:\mingw64)

but I got a lot of files installed to C:\Program Files\mingw-w64\x86_64-8.1.0-posix-seh-rt_v6-rev0\. So I copied the files of the folder to C:\MinGW64, but it seems I still do not have it installed.

Approach 4

From How to install MinGW-w64 and MSYS2?

I went to https://www.msys2.org/, downloaded the x86_64 version, went through the steps outlined in https://stackoverflow.com/a/40800825/4533188 - except for point 7. which I substituted with running pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake. This seems to have worked, but the folder C:\MinGW64 is empty and running gcc.exe --version says, the command could not be found. I have no idea where msys2 installed what and how I have to link/move what to get gcc to run.

Solution

  • The following approach did work for me. I got there via the link in https://stackoverflow.com/a/39113943/4533188

    1. Got to https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/
    2. Click on the newest version (e.g. 8.1.0)
    3. Click on x86_64-posix-sjlj
    4. Download the 7z-Archive

    Alternative way of clicking around:

    1. Got to https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/
    2. Click on files
    3. Click on x86_64-posix-sjlj of the version you want
    4. Download the 7z-Archive

    Then:

    1. Unzip the archive
    2. Inside it there is the folder mingw64 - move it (and its contents) into C:\MinGW64
    3. The gcc can be found at C:\MinGW64\mingw64\bin\gcc.exe