Setup mingw

Setup MinGW command line tools

MinGW A collection of freely available and freely distributable Windows specific header files and import libraries, augmenting the GNU Compiler Collection, (GCC), and its associated tools, (GNU binutils). MinGW provides a complete Open Source programming tool set which is suitable for the development of native Windows programs that do not depend on any 3rd-party C runtime DLLs.

Download and install

• The easiest way is to download the On demand TDM/MinGW Installer 1.808.1 and run it. This installer allows you to download and install the official MinGW command line tools 3.4.5 and then unofficial TDM's experimental GCC/MinGW32 builds (gcc 4.3.1).
• Run the installer and press 'Create'. As installation directory I chose c:\MinGW-3.4.5 or c:\MinGW-4.3.1 depending on the gcc version I selected. To install gcc 4.3.1 choose the 'TDM-GCC Recommended, C/C++' type of install for gcc 3.4.5 choose 'MinGW stable, C/C++'. In addtion you can choose a fortran, ada, objc and objc++ language extension. After clicking 'Install' the packages will be downloaded and installed in the given directory.

Setup

To configure and compile plplot with MinGW it is best to use the Windows CLI. Please follow the instructions in [setup_cli|Setup CLI] to get the Windows Command Line Interface ready for development. Then open your favorite text editor and enter the following CLI commands

@echo off

rem setup Open Watcom compiler
set WATCOM=C:\DevZone\WATCOM
set PATH=%WATCOM%\BINNT;%WATCOM%\BINW;%PATH%
set INCLUDE=%WATCOM%\H;%WATCOM%\H\NT

rem setup PLplot library
set PLPLOTDIR=%USER_ROOTDIR%\PLDev\plplot\buildwatcom
echo Set PLPLOT working directory to %PLPLOTDIR%.
set PLPLOT_LIB=%PLPLOTDIR%\..\data
set PATH=%PLPLOTDIR%\dll;%PATH%

Links

• MinGW Homepage: http://www.mingw.org
• TDM's Experimental GCC/MinGW32 Builds: http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/