How to use GCC and Vim on Windows

1 · Himanshu Shekhar · Feb. 17, 2017, midnight
Most of the GNU tools are available for not just Linux, but other platforms as well. Windows users now have the option of using Ubuntu via WSL. However, many times, you just want to use GCC (C/C++) and (sometimes vim) for programming and don’t want the entire Linux environment. What you need to install? MinGW for the compiler, and GVim for ViM. Installing ViM Pretty easy. Download from here the Windows build of ViM. Start the installation and make sure to check all the checkboxes in installatio...