How to update to mingw-gcc 4.8.2?

c++ mingw gcc4.8
tenos picture tenos · Nov 12, 2013 · Viewed 7.5k times · Source

I want to use Regular expression in c++11 and gcc 4.8.2 supports it. But the MinGW installer only supports up to gcc 4.8.1. How can I update it to gcc 4.8.2?

Answer

greatwolf picture greatwolf · Nov 12, 2013

You can manually install it yourself. There's a MinGW-w64 distribution for 4.8.2 available here.

You'll need 7zip to extract the file contents. After you unzip it to a location of you're choosing just add the bin subdirectory from there to your environment path and you should be good to go.

For example, if you extracted the toolchain into x:\mingw32-4.8.2 then add x:\mingw32-4.8.2\bin using

setx path "%path%;x:\mingw32-4.8.2\bin"

Restart the Command Prompt for it to take effect. If you have an older mingw version installed you might want to remove that to avoid potential conflicts.

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