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So we open our favourite browser
in this case it's Mozilla Firefox
Click on the address bar
and type
www.mingw.org
this will open the official website for the MinGW project
we scroll down and at the left side bar
we will see the "Downloads" link
that link will take us
to the SourceForge.net project site
it is where the MinGW resides
there we can download at the automated
MinGW installer
this file will automate the download and the
installation
here we see the MinGW-5.1.4.exe
which is the latest version as of
the recording of this screencast
although when you download it
it might be a more recent version
here at the dialogue it asks
if we want to save it
of course we want to save it
and then
we open the downloads
dialogue
click on "Open"
and of course we trust the executable
so we click on "OK"
and then
click on next
"Download and Install" is the option
that we will be using
I recommend you read the license it is
GPL, if you agree: click on "I agree"
the current package
is the one that we will be downloading
then click on "Next"
the "MinGW Base Tools" and "MinGW Make"
are the two packages
that we will be downloading
the rest are languages
that we will not
be using in this tutorial
click on "Next"
and on the C:\ drive is where
it will reside
and this is the download
dialogue
it shows the remaining time
the total time of the packages
being downloaded, the file size
the transfer
and the transfer rate.