Setup MinGW (GCC Compiler in Windows)

Download and Install

MinGW Homepage: http://www.mingw.org/

Download MinGW installer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/

In MinGW Installation Manager window, we can only choose mingw32-gcc-g++ (The GNU C++ Compiler) then Apply Change to setup.

Environment Settings

1. Right-click on your "My Computer" icon and select "Properties".
2. Click on the "Advanced" tab, then on the "Environment Variables" button.
3. You should be presented with a dialog box with two text boxes. The top box shows your user settings. The PATH entry in this box is the one you want to modify. Note that the bottom text box allows you to change the system PATH variable. You should not alter the system path variable in any manner, or you will cause all sorts of problems for you and your computer!
4. Click on the PATH entry in the TOP box, then click on the "Edit" button
5. Scroll to the end of the string and at the end add

   ;<installation-directory>\bin

6. press OK -> OK -> OK and you are done.