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		throwawayaway on Feb 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C99 tricks GCC: only as Mingw or MSYS? You can use intel too, I wanted to know what this person was using, not what options there were.

AlexeyBrin on Feb 15, 2015 [–]

You don't need to install MinGW or MSYS in order to use GCC (I assume you are interested only in C99 here and not in POSIX programming). Here is an example of a standalone GCC (contains C, C++ and Fortran compilers):

http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?fa=fortran

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