I currently have mingw installed and the newest available version of gcc (specifically g++) is 6.3.0. Is there a way I can get a newer version of gcc without having to manually replace files in the mingw directory or installing msys2 (or similar things like that)
Installing the newest version of g++ was so much easier on my linux laptop... And installing sfml was even easier. With the version I have on my windows computer, I can't even find a pre-compiled sfml version that works because "the compiler versions must match 100%"
edit: ideally, I want it to work without having to install a new ide that somehow has the compiler integrated in its source code
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Need help updating GCC/G++ from MinGW
I ve downloaded the qt6 version and mingw for gcc 11 version
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Nearly all C++11 features are implemented in the GCC 4.6.x . A good place to get latest GCC builds (MinGW) is the TDM website - http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download . It should be easy to replace your current GCC with TDM GCC by overwriting files...
A special version of MinGW:
MinGW-Builds gives you everything gcc offers (currently 4.7.2)
That is: Including support for std::thread, std::async, std::future and friends.
As far as I know that's by far the most complete C++11 you can get on Windows.
You just get the MinGW-build binaries here. Unlike other gcc-based installations it supports posix threads, which are currently key to getting the gcc support for C++11 threads and friends working on Windows.
Extract the directory mingw to any location and add the following two paths to your PATH environment variable: (well, change F:\coding ...)
CopyF:\coding\MinGW\bin
F:\coding\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin
Add both, separated by semi colon. You will need to log out or reboot. To verify that you got it right, you can open a command prompt, and write
Copyg++ --version
You should get a response like this, mentioning MinGW-builds:
Copyg++ (Built by MinGW-builds project) 4.7.2
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ...
I wrote a more complete instruction for getting this going with Eclipse, here: http://scrupulousabstractions.tumblr.com/post/36441490955/eclipse-mingw-builds
Hello, I installed the compilers about a month ago with MingGW, little did I know they were out of date, around version 6. I can't find a good tutorial on how to update them on windows so if someone could help me out that would be great.