Windows compiling environment

Setting up a Windows compiling environment consisting of GNU Emacs, MinGW and MSYS
1. Download and set up GNU Emacs. Also add the adress of the bin folder to the system path, since some of the programs in the bin folder can be run as shell commands.

2. Download and set up MinGW, including adding the adress of the bin folder to the system path.

3. Download and set up MSYS, including adding the adress of the bin folder to the system path.

Note: GNU Emacs, MinGW and MSYS should preferably be installed to three different folders, all of them with path names without spaces.

Getting started with GNU Emacs, MinGW and MSYS
The best way to use these three programs is to:


 * use GNU Emacs to write the source files and also a makefile for compiling the project


 * Also use GNU Emacs to compile the project, by typing M-x compile

You may also want to use wxWidgets, together with SDL or OpenGL if you are going to develop a graphical application.