MinGW Installation checklist (win32)

[Mario F.]

I've decided to uninstall MinGW and do a manual installation this time for a win32 machine. My first time doing it this way. I need your help determining if I'm missing anything.

Downloaded and installed the following packages:

gcc-core-3.4.2
gcc-g++-3.4.2
w32api-3.6
binutils-2.15.91-20040904-1
mingw-runtime-3.9
mingw-utils-0.3
mingw32-make-3.80.0-3

and also,

gdb-5.2.1-1

The above is pretty much a standard installation, correct? Anything I should add?

Where I do have doubts is:

Do I need MSYS? I'm not sure I can understand what exactly is MSYS. This is probably an indicator I don't need it...

Planning on using Code::Blocks with this. However, if I want to compile from the command prompt, are \lib, \include, and \bin, the only I need to add to my PATH environment var?

What is the difference between c++ and g++?