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pliant herald May 13, 2023, 4:39 AM

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Hi I'm following steps from "Using GCC with MinGW" on the VS code website and I'm trying to accept all from the mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain, but I have no idea what to enter. Can someone please assist? I'm new to C++ with no legit experience in programming, except MATLAB lol, so setting up a compiler is foreign to me.

brittle coral May 13, 2023, 4:41 AM

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Just press enter. BTW, you are using UCRT64 environment but installing packages for MINGW64.

pliant herald May 13, 2023, 4:47 AM

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Oh okay thank you. Do you have a preference for an environment? I recall reading on the MSYS website to use the UCRT64 environment if unsure which to use.

brittle coral May 13, 2023, 4:57 AM

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Not a preference, if you are using 64 bit Windows 10 or above then try to use ucrt64 or clang64. More info about different environments is here https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments/

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But feel free to use any environment. Some old or popular articles suggests mingw64 because it came first.

pliant herald May 13, 2023, 5:06 AM

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Thanks for the info

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