Blog Posts on mingw

GCC: G++ ifstream reads extra unwanted characters by Creek Codes on Mar 19, 2011Been having trouble with GCC's G++ 4.5.2 with MinGW on Windows. I kept having unwanted characters from a file, which should not be present in the first place. Given that I have a hello.txt text file that contains, Hello World and Hello Universe wh...

MSYS pr not found by Creek Codes on Feb 12, 2011Ever got the pr not found error on MSYS? Not sure why the packages made pr command to be obsolete. But compiling FFMPEG on Windows using MinGW and MSYS requires pr in the toolchain. Do not worry, it is still on MinGW's download page though not easi...

Getting Started with GTK on Windows by Creek Codes on Mar 4, 2010I am assuming that you already know GTK+ and wanted to try it out for the first time. This article will discuss how to setup your development environment to start writing GTK+ based applications. First things first, download everything you need. Do...

Using a C++ compiler with Eclipse on Windows by Allister eXplores Software on May 2, 2008I installed the Eclipse CDT in my Windows PCs (both at home and in the office) and I realized that I could simply write C++ code but not build nor run them. The development tools that are so readily and easily available (and I sometimes take for gra...

Using a C++ compiler with Eclipse on Windows by C++ / Python on May 2, 2008I installed the Eclipse CDT in my Windows PCs (both at home and in the office) and I realized that I could simply write C++ code but not build nor run them. The development tools that are so readily and easily available (and I sometimes take for gra...