Is it possible to use MinGW compiler in Visual Studio

**Dauntless** · 24th March 2007, 10:59

I tried doing that but I lose the debugging information for my program. I get a "binary was not build with debug information" error, and without the powerful debugging tool that VS has, I think I will go back to QDevelop where at least I have one.

Here's an article about custom builds that some might find interesting if they use VS.

N.B. I did make the debug (not the release) version of my program with mingw32-g++.

**wysota** · 24th March 2007, 11:03

For debugging you can compile with MSVC. I don't think Visual Studio can debug MinGW compiled binaries.

**Dauntless** · 24th March 2007, 11:11

MSVC can't compile parts of my code because I use C POSIX libraries. I know, I have to translate the code myself so it will use win32 api but it is a lot of work and I was thinking if it was possible to change just the compiler so I would use minGW, which does that job for me. Well, anyhow, thanks for your time wysota, I guess I'll stick with QDevelop for now...