Now you gotta edit your 'Environment Variables' as well, so that gcc works in cmd no matter the file location.And wait while it downloads a billion files and installs them. Then on the top left corner click on Installation > Apply Changes.If you are prompted with a menu, click on Mark for Install.

Out of the numerous check boxes presented to you on the right side, tick ' mingw32-gcc-g++-bin'.You should be in the 'Basic Setup' tab by default when it launches. Right when it ends (which won't take long), you'll be presented a window with title MinGW Installation Manager.You'll now see that the installer is connecting to the Internet and downloading a lot of tiny and small files.Look for mingw-get-setup.exe for downloading.Hence, instead of their official website, download from MinGW SourceForge page

Important Edit: MinGW official website is now down (as of 24th March 2021). You'll be redirected to the site which hosts the files.

Go to MinGW official website and click on 'Downloads' on the left panel.

This article is written so that the installation process is made easier than most of the trashy articles I had to go through. 1000 rage-quits later, I present you this article. But for those of you who were constant users of Windows and Command Prompt, and never felt the necessity for a C compiler, GCC seems to come out of the blue and a tough nut to install. GCC, abbreviation for 'GNU Compiler Collection' (thanks (and not Gulf Cooperation Council, like I'd assumed) is a necessity if you (or your pesky college) is into C Programming.Īlmost all Linux distros come pre-installed with it so they are out of the trouble.

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