Name: [4916] Jack Atkinson
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Description: Hi, I'm an embedded software and design engineer consultant who likes to program a lot. My skill sets include C/C++ and python which is quickly becoming my favorite. I dabble in other languages as well. My educational background is both a master's and bachelor's in electrical engineering. I've w ...

How to install MinGW [ID:542] (1/2)

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This is part one of a two part video series. This covers how to setup your Windows XP machine with the MinGW compiler. This is a very useful compiler for building a lot of various open source code as well as integrating with Eclipse on Windows.

You can get MinGW from this Sourceforge download page. This video also covers setting the Windows PATH in case you get a 'not recognised as an internal or external command' error.

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37. Plutonium Thu, 26 May 2011 07:36

Installing went easily with the tip on changing the environment variable. Thanks,

John


36. Plutonium Thu, 26 May 2011 07:27

Installing went easily with the tip on changing the environment variable. Thanks,

John


35. opre liviu Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:32

I like it.


34. Raj Menath Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:39

Good video - although I am sure the last couple of unix/linux commands "ls" and "cp" won't work in cmd!


33. sumanth Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:51

fantastic video......


32. Simon Brusch Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:53

You made it look easy, and it was I did it whilst I watched.

Many thanks.


31. Jacky Liu Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:04

I'm forever looking videos like this on the web. The never-compile-anything-on-Windows era for me will end soon, I think, I gotta get my Python code completion work in Vim as soon as possible.

A lot of Thanks!


30. prem Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:54

very useful, thanks


29. anonymous Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:22

I'm a newbie to programming - absolute beginner. Thanks for taking the time to do this video showing how to start :)

Cheers


28. anonymous Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:19

it's nice


27. anonymous Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:36

It's a very usefull


26. anonymous Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:44

Great video! Been a developer for a while and always hunted to find already pre-built tools for windows since I didn't have a compiler installed...this is wonderful. Thanks!


25. anonymous Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:07

Cool!


24. anonymous Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:27

nice. I'm thinking that the downloading process could probably be edited out. after all, this video isn't about how fast your internet connection is. :)


23. anonymous Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:09

Very useful


22. anonymous Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:22

Great tutorial. Thanks!


21. Kyran Dale Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:26

brillant! This stuff works ;) Just got a new netbook for on-the-road Pythoning and it looks like running XP will give it that much more battery-life, when needed. So I'm setting up a little *nixy environment. This points the way nicely. cheers.


20. anonymous Tue, 19 May 2009 11:11

Very helpful. I learned a few things about installing packages.


19. anonymous Mon, 04 May 2009 09:47

Thank you!


18. anonymous Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:31

nice work!!


17. anonymous Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:26

great video!!! thanks for the help


16. Jack Atkinson Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:38

ToxicWorld, that was my bad. I've installed a lot of Gnu tools on my system, because they're more powerful than the standard windows command line tools

See: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net


15. ToxicWorldExile Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:13

I didn't have a list (ls) or a copy (cp) command? What is the difference from your installation?


14. Tobias Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:06

Ok, since the installer is used, the installation is not black magic; but it's useful to know what compiler packages should be selected for Vim compilation, and of course not to forget the make utility, and take care of the PATH. Sadly, the acoustic quality is sub-optimal (white noise in the background).


13. anonymous Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:42

Great thanks a lot, i forgot to set the path to MinGW bin folder, like you have to with java sdk


12. anonymous Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:34

Much appreciated. Video is nice way for getting instructions accross.

What GNU utils do you recommend ? MSYS ?


11. Jack Atkinson Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:32

Your video has been edited. This is an automatic post by ShowMeDo.


10. Jack Atkinson Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:31

Your video has been edited. This is an automatic post by ShowMeDo.


9. Jack Atkinson Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:30

Your video has been edited. This is an automatic post by ShowMeDo.


8. Jack Atkinson Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:52

I'll try to work on the sound quality before I make too many videos. I don't have much to work with right now. Right now, I'm using my laptop with a crummy microphone. I'll look into getting a better sound card and microphone after my next video gets up.


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