How to install gcc on windows.

[David Gressett]

At 07:16 PM 5/14/2005, corey taylor wrote:
>Is there a Mingw 4.0 port yet?
>
>corey

No, and it may be a while before there is one. The MinGW version of gcc 
patches the original GNU version in many places; the most recent MinGW 
version is 3.4.2; Only a few of these patches have made it into GNU gcc 
4.0.0, and some will have to be done differently or not at all due to 
changes between 3.4 and 4. The GNU gcc web site contains one report of a 
successful build of unpatched gcc 4.0.0 in a MinGW environment; the person 
reporting built only c and c++, none of the other languages,and could not 
do detailed testing, as he didn't have MinGW ports of the necessary 
software tools needed to do the testing.

I have found that Ada will not build, even with the 3.4.2 patches applied 
to the Ada part of the gcc source code. I haven't tried any of the other 
languages yet.

It's very unlikely that you will get MinGW gcc 4.0.x until all of the 
languages work ok.  The MinGW environment is not a "must-have" item for the 
gcc development team, so it gets left to the Cygwin and MingW folks to make 
it work on Windows. They don't have infinite free time to work on compiler 
releases. There is no guarantee that the x in MinGW 4.0.x will be 0. I will 
be surprised if it is less than 2.