I want to learn C. I have downloaded mingw from sourceforge.net but after installing it I realised that it installed version 6.3.0 of GCC. as I know the latest version of GCC is 11.2. Does anybody know how to install latest version of GCC, and do I need to uninstall that mingw folder? ... You can use MSYS2 on Windows to install newer versions of GCC. ... Install MinGW-w64 gcc (for ... More on stackoverflow.com

I have the "Msys64" package installed. It uses "pacman" to do installation and updates. Hope you've memorized the switches. The main problem with that distribution is that there can be confusion as to which shell you need to run to get things done: "mingw32" shell "mingw64" shell "msys2" shell You'd think that "mingw64" and "msys2" would provide the same C compiler environment, but they do not. The "msys2" is intended on building applications that run under the "msys2" shell, and not for general use. The Windows headers that are included by the "msys2" GCC compiler are incompatible with standard Windows headers. As for how to install the compilers, if you literally ask for just "gcc", you get the MSYS2 version of GCC, not the Mingw64 version of "gcc", so you get broken Windows headers, unless you knew in advance not to download the "gcc" package. More on reddit.com

Here's a step by step flow- Go to winlibs.com Scroll down and find the "UCRT runtime" Download the "Zip archive" for Win64 (you can choose to download the one without clang) Extract the mingw folder from zip and place it somewhere Open mingw folder, there's a bin folder, open it Copy the current path, e.g., "C:\mingw\bin" Open environment variables editor Open Path, add new and paste the above copied path You're done More on reddit.com

You can use MSYS2. It also comes with package manager and repository that contains many prebuilt open source libraries. More on reddit.com