Try these one-click installers; the experience is much better. mingw-builds to install gcc: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/ http://sourceforge.ne

Try these one-click installers; the experience is much better. mingw-builds to install gcc: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/ msys2 to install the rest of the build environment: http://msys2.github.io/ http://msys2.github.io/ (as well as a growing number of packages, managed with a port of pacman from Arch)