Alex opened a browser and searched for "MinGW download." The results were a labyrinth of dead links and legacy projects. There was the original MinGW.org, which looked like it hadn't been updated since the days of Windows XP. Then there was MinGW-w64, a newer, more active fork that supported both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.
The final step. Alex typed the name of the executable. hello.exe mingw setup
Create hello.cpp :
Run the installer and follow the prompts to install it (typically in C:\msys64 ). Alex opened a browser and searched for "MinGW download