Why is MinGW very slow?

Question

I\'m using the Code::Blocks IDE with GCC/MinGW on Windows, and I\'m trying to build a wxWidgets application which has ca. 20k lines and 40 source modules. And it builds very

Answer 1

You can try to use a more recent version of the toolset. I found this to be useful: http://nuwen.net/mingw.html It has all the tools used by MinGW and common APIs in a single big package. From the site:

My MinGW distribution ("distro") is x64-native and currently contains GCC 6.1.0 and Boost 1.61.0.

MinGW is a port of GCC to Windows. It is free of charge and simple to use (well, as simple as toolchains ever get). It produces standalone Windows executables which may be distributed in any manner.