Installing C and C++ Compiler for Windows 7, 8.1, and 10 (MinGW) 2018

Install C and C++ without Visual Studio and compile in the command line on windows (Please read full description)... [ NOTE... Cmder is not required. You can use the Command Prompt as Admin. ] -- Tools Used -- * Cmder.net (Free custom Terminal/Command Line Tool) http://cmder.net/ * Chocolatey Package Manager https://chocolatey.org/ | https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki * TutorialsPoint (Sample Code) (c) https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cprogramming/c_program_structure.htm (c++) https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cplusplus/ * VS Code (Free IDE with Terminal Window) https://code.visualstudio.com/ -- Full Description -- This tutorial differs from the Cygwin installation. I realized the Cygwin installation is too up and down. In this tutorial, you will use your command line to install the package manager Chocolatey. Using the command "choco" we will install MinGW. After installation, we confirm that MinGW is installed using "choco list --local-only". Once confirmed we then check and confirm that gcc (c compiler) and g++ (c++ compiler) are installed. Next, we open a browser to the sample code for both C and C++ on tutorialspoint.com - You can use any text editor but for this example, we use VS Code. With VS Code open, we create a folder and inside the folder, we create two new folders. One for the C Program and one for the C++ Program. Inside each folder, we create a file called main and add the code provided by tutorialspoint.com - Finally, using the command line tool provided in VS Code we compile the C program, confirm it compiled, and execute it. We then change to the C++ directory, compile the file, confirm it, and execute it. --- Additional Note --- I've found that this process is a bit easier than setting up Cygwin. I've realized that I mispronounced MinGW. A habit of saying Cygwin.