Hey! I like MinGW, but only on our "good" computer. I transfered all files to my "programming" computer, which is a crappy 586 from '95. I tried compiling a hello.cpp program to test it, but it took >30 minutes to do so! There's only like 6 lines of code! Anyway, I decided maybe that if I want to use MinGW on this computer, I'll have to get an older version. I have 3.2. Is this a newish version? If so, where could I get an older one? (You know, so it'll run better on an older computer?)

30 minutes is a long time for only 6 lines of code. That's probably about 1000x slower than standard computers these days. On my old P2-300 laptop running MinGW 2.0/gcc 3.1, I don't recall noticing any significant slow down. Maybe I should check whether it really uses gcc 3.1.

w0w the Aybabtu is back!! Cmon download the Fparty03!:P

anyway i think the compile time is not depends on the version,but your Harddisk! due to includes and libs..on my 1.7ghz,the newest allegro 4112wip compiled in 3min or so.
Nyah!;D

Quotes:no screenshot,no download! nyah!

Or it's 99% fragmented. Allegro compiled in less then 30 minutes on my 486-100mhz. Somethings got to be really strange going on.

update your system, maybe even reformat it or defrag it, uninstall your programming stuff, reinstall it, and hope that nasty bug disapears.

Johnny13: It's not in the left bar? (Under "Games-->"?)

Derezo: 90MHz, 8MB o' RAM, and Win95. I think I'll stick with DJGPP right now, until I can get a better computer of my own.

then try running it in windows safe mode, to spare some memory. if you see a signifficant difference then TF has a point. My mother has a 16MB machine on win95, and it swaps nearly all the time.

hmmmm, well my crappy system is currrently compiling... slow slow slow, it only takes like 10min to open windows I'm dumb! (486, 8mg ram, 300mg hd, laptop...). Its running win98 and dev-cpp w/mingw32. I don't know what version, gotta let it finish compiling. I'll get back to you.

I'm dumb! my laptop took 2 hours to just find out I had a santax error! It was only something like this

#include<iostream.h>       //don't bother me about this

int main()
{
    int temp;
    cout << "Hello World" << endl;
    cout << "Input a number:";
    cin >> temp;
    cout << endl << "You put in:" << temp << endl;
    return 0;
}

ha ha ha, now its trying to compile again (first time i forgot a ';').

EDIT:
I'm dumb!, to actuall compile it 2 1/2 hours, ha ha ha. Plus even the cout was kind of laggy (Who thought that was possible???), how horrible. Its prob because of the small HD and win98.

My 486 66MHz can compile faster then that in windows . DJGPP or Mingw never took longer then about 5min's to compile an old game or 40min's for Allegro(3.12 or the 3.9.*WIP's). I did have 128Meg's of RAM though.

Has anyone else noticed how slow GCC is on Windows or DOS compared to Linux?:P

I doubt you can still by memory for a system that old. Most computer stores won't have it in stock.

He didn't say he was using 3.12, he said it took 40 minutes to compile 3.12.

Anyway, with 8MB of ram, you're probably better of running DJGPP instead of MinGW. Note that even when you compile programs, DirectX applications are going to eat up a lot of the system's resources on that system.

>PyroBoy:

Has anyone else noticed how slow everything is on Windows or DOS compared to Linux?

(compiling a gentoo linux kernel took less than 30 minutes on my P233, and thats like 50 meg code!)

RedHat is still using that buggy pice of crap? 2.95 and 2.96 were/are RedHat isms. They were never a real release. They are just pre alpha's of 3.0...