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takluiper
takluiper

Reputation: 689

mingw without g++ compiler

i am new to linux and I have the following question:

I am trying to install MINGW in Ubuntu. I ran the command:

   sudo apt-get install mingw-w64

It was installed, and if i put the command gcc it runs ok. The problem is g++ command does not work. I guess it is because i don't have the c++ compiler (as I read in similar questions in stackoverflow). I read too that you can use the next command:

   mingw-get install g++

but i don't have the executable program for this command.

My question is, how can I install that executable? or is there another way to update my mingw so I can use the g++ compiler?

Hope I have explained myself correctly. Thank you for any help I receive.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 998

Answers (1)

o11c
o11c

Reputation: 16016

mingw-get is a windows specific package manager, it is not needed when you use a native linux package manager such as APT.

Installing package mingw-w64 depends on package g++-mingw-w64, which depends on g++-mingw-w64-i686 and g++-mingw-w64-x86-64.

These packages install the mingw cross compilers as 

/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++-posix
/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++-win32
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-g++-posix
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-g++-win32

Older versions of mingw cross compiler shipped /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-c++, which is replaced by i686-w64-mingw32-c++-win32

You can usually use this toolchain in a project by running ./configure CXX=i686-w64-mingw32-c++-win32 or make CXX=i686-w64-mingw32-c++-win32

Note: the above description is correct for the most recent toolchain in Debian unstable. It may need some minor tweaking for older systems.

Upvotes: 2

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