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I've been looking for the 64-bit MinGW Windows installer for a bit now and can't find it, people on forums just link back to the 32-bit installer saying "It works on 64-bit Windows". I have no clue how I found it before but I got it on my laptop about 2 months ago but can't find it now when I want to get it for my desktop. I'm currently running the newest version from the github but it doesn't come with libraries like GMP and every attempt to find / create it separately doesn't work
Please see here: https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/bugs/2340/
TL;DR - SourceForge has an issue with certs which prevents some versions of Windows from downloading from it using MinGW (I encountered this issue on 32-bit XP).
You can however get the packages you need manually. Just put them in
$MINGW_ROOT/var/cache/mingw-get/packages
(where mingw-get.exe itself is in $MINGW_ROOT/bin). The MinGW GUI will check this location first before trying to fetch from the SourceForge source. Here is an easy list of all packages: https://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php/mingw
You can create an .lst file of all URLs and just grab everything (it's about 900 MB of data) and then use this command to download all:
wget --no-check-certificate -i MinGW32.lst
Definitely, Visual Studio handles many features.
One of which is having it's own compiler preconfigured to run on Visual Studio. To use it you can select C++ project when creating a new project. If you can not see a C++ project category, you should have a "link" that directs you to a tool downloading page where you can look for c++.
