I am running WinXP. I have Eclipse Indigo. I installed http://code.google.com/p/llvm4eclipsecdt/ but it appears that it's not configured correctly. I'd like to use the MinGW variant.
Is there an install guide that gives all the steps for installing correctly on a "fresh" Windows PC? Including the steps to install mingw properly -- I had an old version from 2010 but can't seem to get everything to work together -- and point the Eclipse CDT plugin to the right paths for binaries/includes/libraries/etc.
by default it is configured for visual studio, but in case if you want to use it over migwin ... check thislink
take into account point (6) in section Building Clang and Working with the Code
On Unix-like Systems, you will be required to set right include paths .... and lib path
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In my professional computer, I have minGW 4.5.2 installed. Eclipse CDT works perfectly with it.
But I want to test some C++11 features. So I copied my minGW 4.8.x folder from my personal PC.
My problem is that eclipse uses libraries from the old minGW (witch is the PATH).
I'd want to set eclipse up to use the new version of minGW.
I know how to change the g++ used for compiling/linking but not the include libraries.
Any idea ?
Thanks a lot.
PS : I can't change the PATH in my professional computer. I run Windows 7
You can try creating a batch file the following code, assuming the MinGW you want to use is in C:\MinGW :
set PATH=C:\MinGW\bin;%PATH%
start eclipse.exe
I regularly use Code::Blocks and MinGW for my C/C++ projects. I would like to be able to use OpenCV, since it has a nice library for computer vision projects. They have dropped support for MinGW. I have heard you can build it on your own somehow, but I have no experience doing this with 3rd party libraries. Can someone explain how to build it in a simple way for MinGW?
There is, or at least there was at least until 2.4.6, precompiled version of opencv that works out of the box with mingw as long as you use the dw2(standard) version of mingw.
since i needed sjlj support i had to build my own version of openCV 2.4.6
I did he following - i am pretty sure it will work for the current openCV version as well
Setup your preferred Mingw Environment - i would strongly recommend to use gcc 4.5 or newer
Intstall Msys
Intall Cmake - you can get a binary package
Start the Cmake GUI
Select the openCV source folder
Click Configure and select MSYS-Makfiles
Errors in the first run of Configure might be resolved if you run Configure again
Click Generate
use MSYS make to run the generated makefile
Copy all desired libraries and include files to your mingw-installation or your project
I'm used to manually install GCC from source before on Ubuntu and it was a painful process. So I really don't want to do repeat this process. Currently, I have MinGW and GCC (4.6.2) installed on my machine. So is there an easy way to update GCC without building it entirely from source? Has anyone done it before can share me some tips?
Update using terminal:
Run the command prompt/terminal (cmd or sh).
Update the package list:
mingw-get update
After updating the package list, run:
mingw-get upgrade
When the command finishes running, all of your packages will be upgraded.
Update using the GUI version:
If you aren't used to the terminal, there is also a GUI version of MinGW called "MinGW Installation Manager", which is normally located at:
C:\MinGW\libexec\mingw-get\guimain.exe
When the GUI is open, tap Installation -> Update Catalogue. This will update the package list.
After that, tap Installation -> Mark All Upgrades. This will select all of the packages which can be upgraded.
Finally, tap Installation -> Apply Changes to apply the upgrades.
Snapshots and release builds of the MinGW http://code.google.com/p/mingw-builds/downloads/list
UPDATE: As of Nov-5-2012, MinGW includes 4.7.2 of the GCC compiler, which is the most current version. I personally will use the MinGW package, since it includes MSYS and other tools, and since it is the defacto standard, I hope that it is better supported. The only drawback is the included GDB does not include Python scripting, but I think that can be updated separately.
I don't know if you can update the GCC in MinGW, but there are alternative projects to MinGW with newer versions of GCC.
The MinGW-builds project provides a package similar to MinGW but with an updated GCC (4.7.2). I extracted the files to c:\MinGW (so I could use the same path) after moving my existing MinGW to another folder. Only MinGW has MSYS, so if you need that (I did) copy the msys folder from the original MinGW.
After installing MinGW-builds, the result of g++ --version:
g++ (Built by MinGW-builds project) 4.7.2
The latest GCC that comes with standard MinGW is currently 4.7.0. I compiled a few simple projects in Code::Blocks, and the latest wxWidgets source, and everything seems to work.
It's worth noting that MinGW-builds includes a Python script enabled version of GDB, in case you want STL pretty printer support, or other GDB Python features.
Another good choice is TDM-GCC, which is a project that hosts an impressive installer that includes an updated GCC compiler (4.7.1) and support tools. It is a standalone package. As far as I can tell, Python scripting is not supported in the GDB that comes with this package.
Finally there is the MinGW-w64 project, which is a fork of MinGW. Rubenvb, who posted an answer to this question, has good standalone packages (in the personal builds folder) based on this project which include an updated GCC (4.7.2). The included GDB seems to be Python script enabled.
if you use MSYS2
just open mingw64-console and type in:
# Update the package database and core system packages with:
pacman -Syu
# If needed, close MSYS2, run it again from Start menu. Update the rest with:
pacman -Su
I have built a more up to date GCC 4.7 (it's built within code freeze, so it should be equivalent with the release). Also, this build contains <thread> support.
32-bit
64-bit
The -gcc_linux package is what you want if you want to use it on Linux. Just extract somewhere and add the mingw??/bin directory to PATH.
PS: There's a native Windows compiler and a Windows Clang build. I suggest using Clang only with one of my GCC 4.6 builds, as it has trouble with GCC 4.7's libstd++. Extract the Clang package in the same directory as the GCC package and it will work out of the box.
The MinGW-w64 build from http://winlibs.com/ has the latest GCC version and requires no installation, just unzip the download. To upgrade you can just replace the mingw32 or mingw64 folder with the new version.
To get latest MinGW64 in Windows: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/?source=typ_redirect
For all platforms: https://mingw-w64.org/doku.php/download
You just need to update your g++ compiler if its not.
First problem can be solved through this:
Update using the GUI version:
If you aren't used to the terminal, there is also a GUI version of MinGW called "MinGW Installation Manager", which is normally located at:
C:\MinGW\libexec\mingw-get\guimain.exe
When the GUI is open, tap
Installation -> Update Catalogue
. This will update the package list.
After that, tap
Installation -> Mark All Upgrades
. This will select all of the packages which can be upgraded.
Finally, tap
Installation -> Apply Changes
to apply the upgrades.
2nd Problem could be that if you didn't updated the path of mingw in environment variables.
I'm trying to get eclipse to work with MinGW.
I've done the following:
Downloaded CDT for eclipse.
Installed MinGW.
Added C:\MinGW\bin to my path.
Opening a command prompt (CMD) and typing g++ or alike works fine.
I run eclipse, create a "New C++ Project", and only get the option saying "other toolchains".
There's a MILLION tutorials out there saying eclipse should identify MinGW on its own. It doesn't, and I don't know what to do. I've tried reinstalling everying in just about every order posible. Still no luck.
I've also noted some tutorials say something about creating a "Managed C++ Project". I've no such option, all I get is "C++ Project" and "C Project"
edit:
I have eclipse ganymede, windows x86_64, version 3.4.2
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4.2-200902111700/index.php
Running the "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ developers" fails, since there's no x64 version for windows. The x86 version requires x86 JAVA installed as well, and installing two versions of java, gave nothing but trouble in the past.
The instructions for setting up MinGW in Ganymede are located here.
The following are instructions and
links on how to install the current
version of MinGW. Note that these
links may become inaccurate over time
as new versions of MinGW components
are introduced. Please check the MinGW
File Release section for the latest
versions.
Download and run the MinGW setup program, MinGW-5.1.3.exe.
Select download and install the MinGW base tools and the g++ compiler.
You may select the Current or
Candidate version of these tools. You
may also install any of the other
available compilers as well.
Do not install the MinGW Make feature as the MSYS version of make
from step 5 is a more complete
implementation of make.
The MinGW setup program currently does not install the gdb
debugger. To install the debugger,
download the file from the following
location: gdb-6.6.tar.bz2
Extract the contents of the file gdb-6.6.tar.bz2 to the same location
where you installed MinGW.
If you want to use Makefile projects, download and run the setup
program from the following location:
MSYS-1.0.10.exe. MSYS provides an
implementation of make and related
command line tools. This is not
required for other types of projects
with the MinGW toolchain, which use
CDT's internal build tools to perform
the build.
Following this process resolved any problems I had.
I had the same exact problem with Eclipse Galileo and CDT 6.0.1. It turns out that CDT only recognized MinGW when it's located under c:\mingw. I had it in c:\msys\mingw so that was the problem. After I changed that everything worked fine.
The distinction between managed make projects and makefile project was removed in CDT 4.x, I think. Now there is only one type of project, but you can select different builders. CDT includes an internal builder which does not use makefiles and another one which does.
First, save yourself the effort of "reinstalling in every order possible". That is also known as trial-and-error, and will only make you more frustrated. Apply the normal problem-solving skills you have as a programmer.
Given that you have MinGW installed, what happens if you download "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ developers", start eclipse.exe, and try to create a C++-project with a MinGW toolchain?
EDIT: remember: the key in getting help with problems like these is to produce a minimal example which fails. Also, it would help if you provided URLs to the packages you installed (MinGW, Eclipse, etc.).
EDIT: I just installed CDT using the Ganymede update site, downloaded and installed MinGW from here, and restarted Eclipse, and everything worked fine. I know that doesn't help you, but it does prove that the toolchain detection isn't completely broken. Something is weird on your side.
You could try Wascana Desktop Developer. Its a distribution of Eclipse CDT configured specifically for developing on Windows.
I had the same problem (i.e. Eclipse not finding MinGW on the PATH) after I removed some of the unused files/folders from MinGW. It was ~600 MB and I was tasked to trim it down before adding to source control. I got it down to a workable ~200 MB. When I tried to re-create an Eclipse workspace afterwards, MinGW disappeared from available toolchains. It reappeared after I put the original MinGW install on the path.
HTH
I've been trying to use CDT with Eclipse 3.4 under Windows XP with cygwin.
What do I need to do, in order to get startet?
I used "eclipse-cpp-ganymede-SR1-win32.zip" found on the Eclipse homepage.
Edit:
The main problem is, that I cannot compile and run the code.
In the run configuration, I tried gcc.exe for the C/C++ Application:
After adding the path of make.exe to my $Path, and starting from scratch, it works perfectly.
I finally found. Thanks guys.
After downloading and unpacking "eclipse-cpp-ganymede-SR1-win32.zip", you need to install either Cygwin or MinGW.
Make sure the compiler (e.g. gcc.exe) and make.exe is on your $Path.
Start Eclipse and everything should work fine.
If you want to use Eclipse/CDT on Windows, you should consider using Wascana Desktop Developer, a CDT distro specially targeting Windows hosts.
According the the CDT Downloads page:
As a minimum, you need to install the Eclipse Platform Runtime before installing the CDT
So adding the CDT Ganymede update site to your current eclipse 3.4 configuration should be enough for you to install CDT.
After that, do you have any error message ?
For instance, there can be some eclipse.ini-related issues when using this package.
For me the package you downloaded worked from start. However I was using it with MinGW instead of Cygwin.
I am using it also for QT4 development together with QT Integrator.
I use MinGW, though I note that the documentation says you can use Cygwin. I would have a look through Max Berger's CDT guide to troubleshoot the problem.
you can install both Cygwin and MinGW in your system. gcc and make available with Mingw seems to be suitable better for native windows build. If the PATH environment is set to paths of Cygwin [and/or] MinGW Eclipse project wizard asks you select one . Either Cygwin or MinGW.
For MingW, you may need to download gdb as well, if you need to debug your application