I'm trying to compile something that depends on gtkspell, which depends on enchant, under MinGW. I'm getting errors like gtkspell/gtkspell.c:757: undefined reference to '_imp__enchant_broker_init'...

I have this code: #include <stdio.h> #include "SDL/SDL.h" SDL_Surface *screen = NULL; int main(int argc, char* args[]) { SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING); screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(640, 4...

It seems like only the "C" locale is working with MinGW. I tried the example found here and no commas were added even though the system locale is set to Canada. #include <iostream> #include ...

I am using eclipse CDT to test the Intel instructions and below is my program: #define cpuid(func,ax,bx,cx,dx)\ __asm__ __volatile__ ("cpuid":\ "=a" (ax), "=b" (bx), "=c" (cx), "=d" (dx) : "a" (f...

When using MinGW, it's easy to run into a DLL hell, i.e. your program not running because it either doesn't find the required DLLs or finds incompatible versions of them. This can manifest itself a...

The top-level CMakeLists.txt contains: include(CTest) add_subdirectory(lib) add_subdirectory(demo) add_subdirectory(test) lib/CMakeLists.txt is essentially: add_library(MyLib <sources>) ...

I'm trying to use C++20 in VS Code with the Code Runner extension, which allows me to run code using ctrl+alt+n. I have installed MinGW64 through the MSYS2 installer. My compiler version is 12.0.2....

How to use the Windows API in MinGW?

When running the checks for my R-package (via devtools::check()) I face the warning ''qpdf' is needed for checks on size reduction of PDFs. I found this question were it was suggested (if I underst...

I was trying to compile the code below (from https://mcmap.net/q/64265/-how-do-i-execute-a-command-and-get-the-output-of-the-command-within-c-using-posix). The compile went OK, if I compile with ...

I'm trying to set up MinGW. I have downloaded the latest installer, which installs mingw-get but this utility fails to fetch the packages and gives the following kind of messages: mingw-get: * E...

I have a simple socket program that I'm trying to compile using g++ running in mingw (both the latest versions) on a Win8 system. I'm getting the common linker errors undefined reference to `__imp...

I have followed the instruction on the "GMP Install Instruction for Windows Platform". I could build a 32bit version of GMP which can be used for Visual Studio. ./configure --prefix=${gmp-install}...

I have reached the end of my rope with CMake; it has so much potential, but I cannot seem to make it find the basic system tools (i.e. make) in order to function. SYMPTOMS CMake and the CMake GUI...

I have been working on a project (a game to be specific) and I feel that I should start over with different libraries. So when doing this I reinstalled Code::Blocks and setup my new libraries and i...

I'm new to this. Just wanted to ask how to compile a makefile. I am using MinGW compiler in C language. Do I have to save all my files in MinGW\bin? because right now my files are in a different di...

I'm trying to cross-compile cachecoin binaries on a linux host using gitian and i686-w64-mingw for a windows target. The compilation works fine until the final step of static linking of the depend...

I'm a C newbie who recently installed gcc and gdb on windows 10 through MinGW. However, when I tried to debug my program using gdb through win10 cmd I got an error. Here's what I did on cmd: gcc ...

Here's my code (created just to test fork()): #include <stdio.h> #include <ctype.h> #include <limits.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h...

I'm currently using VS Code to learn C++ because it was easy to setup and is much lighter than VS Studio. However, one thing that I'm unable to do is to see the elements of an array (or string, etc...

I am cross compiling from linux to windows using the mingw32 tools. I need to generate pdb files for debugging on windows. Is there a way to do this?

internal error in mingw32_gt_pch_use_address, at config/i386/host-mingw32.c:190: MapViewOfFileEx: Attempt to access invalid address. I get this error while compiling a c++ program in sublime-text...

I have recently moved from Window 7 to Windows 10 and I cannot get my makefiles to work anymore. I have been using the GNU Make for Windows The first thing that I noticed was that it had started ...

I started using SDL today and had some trouble before, now I got it running but it won't let me init it. This is my code: #include <iostream> #include "SDL.h" #undef main using namespace ...

I have a curious problem porting working numerical code from Intel 2023 & MSC Visual C++ 2022. The code compiled with GCC is perfectly accurate (too accurate) since some library calls are worki...