c++11 - mingw 4.7 install and msys setup notes

The new c++11 standard adds lots of new syntactic sugar to play with.

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/cxx0x_status.html


Unfortunately you'll need to get the 4.7 release directly... the automatic installer still wont download then for you.

http://code.google.com/p/mingw-builds/downloads/detail?name=i686-mingw32-gcc-4.7.0-release-c%2Cc%2B%2B%2Cfortran-sjlj.zip&can=2&q=


Once down loaded unzip in to your desired location (mine is c:\tools\...)

Then you will need to help the system locate the compiler, linker and libs (runtime dlls) for usage as well so you should run the following on a prompt before running your compliation and built .exes.

export PATH="/c/tools/tmp2/mingw/i686-w64-mingw32/lib:$PATH"
export PATH="/c/tools/tmp2/mingw/bin:$PATH"