C++11 compiler for windows

Question

I was just watching a few videos on Channel9. I found things like lambdas really cool. when I tried to copy the example, it failed. auto didn\'t work either.

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Answer 1

A special version of MinGW:

MinGW-Builds gives you everything gcc offers (currently 4.7.2)

That is: Including support for std::thread, std::async, std::future and friends.

As far as I know that's by far the most complete C++11 you can get on Windows.

You just get the MinGW-build binaries here. Unlike other gcc-based installations it supports posix threads, which are currently key to getting the gcc support for C++11 threads and friends working on Windows.

Extract the directory mingw to any location and add the following two paths to your PATH environment variable: (well, change F:\coding ...)

F:\coding\MinGW\bin
F:\coding\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin

Add both, separated by semi colon. You will need to log out or reboot. To verify that you got it right, you can open a command prompt, and write

g++ --version 

You should get a response like this, mentioning MinGW-builds:

g++ (Built by MinGW-builds project) 4.7.2 
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ...

I wrote a more complete instruction for getting this going with Eclipse, here: http://scrupulousabstractions.tumblr.com/post/36441490955/eclipse-mingw-builds