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    MinGW-w64 download delivers strange material

    I have a new win11 laptop and want to install the latest version of mingw-w64
    for my programming adventures.
    I use g++ in the mingw thing to compile my C++project in Eclipse IDE.
    I've been doing it this way for years.
    Searching for the mingw-w64 'xyz-install.exe' doesn't work.
    Instead, I land in github with a list of i686-.......posix/win32/dwarf/msvcrt/ucrt files.

    1. Which of these 8 i686/x86 files do I need to download?

    I downloaded one and it looks like an incomplete setup. Instead of g++.exe under the bin
    directory, there is just gbd-add-index containing either makefile code or cmd code.

    Gibberish to me.

    2. Another download ,(mingw-w64-v8.00), gives me things like makefile.am makefile.in configure configure.ac alocal.m4 ......and much more. What am I supposed to do with this?

    I need a bin folder with g++.exe.
    Klatau Broada Nektau

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    Re: MinGW-w64 download delivers strange material

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    Re: MinGW-w64 download delivers strange material

    That second one just might do it for me.
    Klatau Broada Nektau

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    Re: MinGW-w64 download delivers strange material

    Problem Solved : the MinGW installed was a very old version.
    And using a simple copy of the old vQt folder was sufficient.
    Klatau Broada Nektau

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