This install procedure was verified on Windows 7 (SP1), with MinGW 64-bit compiler. The 32-bit MinGW compiler was not tested, but it should work without any problem. Microsoft C compiler is not supported any more.

Make these directories in your home:

c:\users\%USERNAME%\ccchome
c:\users\%USERNAME%\ccchome\bin

Later we will refer to the c:\users\%USERNAME%\ccchome directory as CCCHOME or %CCCHOME%.

You have to download the latest PortableGit package from this site. Choose the 64-bit "thumbdrive edition" version. Extract the archive in the CCCHOME directory, now you have

c:\users\%USERNAME%\ccchome\PortableGit

with the Git version control system and many more utilities (ssh, scp, grep, diff, ...) in it. But you do not have any C compiler yet. On Windows we use the MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) compiler, which is the Windows port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). Its maintenance needs the MSYS2 system, so you have to install the MSYS2 first.

From this page download the 64-bit version of the msys2 package, install it following the description on the same page. The result is the c:\msys64 directory on your computer. If you execute the

c:\msys64\msys2_shell.cmd

script, then you get a console window with a proper msys2 environment in it. In that environment execute this script:

PREFIX=mingw-w64-x86_64

pacman -S \
    $PREFIX-gcc\
    $PREFIX-openssl\
    $PREFIX-pcre\
    $PREFIX-gtk2\
    $PREFIX-pkg-config\
    $PREFIX-glib2

# or
# pacman -S $PREFIX-toolchain

which will install all CCC dependencies in the c:\msys64\mingw64 directory. Now, as the last step, make a directory junction

mklink /J c:\users\%USERNAME%\ccchome\mingw64  c:\msys64\mingw64 

As a result, you have the c:\users\%USERNAME%\ccchome\mingw64 directory containing all C compilers and libraries.

Install the following script into CCCHOME\bin\cccenv.bat:

@echo off
chcp 65001

set CCCVER=%1
set CCCSUB=%2


set CCCBIN=mng
set CCCUNAME=windows
set OREF_SIZE=50000

set CCCDIR=%CCCHOME%\ccc%CCCVER%%CCCSUB%
set CMPDIR=%CCCHOME%\mingw64
set GTKDIR=%CCCHOME%\mingw64
set GNUDIR=%CCCHOME%\portablegit

:compiler path
set PATH=%CMPDIR%\bin;%PATH%
set INCLUDE=%CMPDIR%\include;%INCLUDE%
set LIB=%CMPDIR%\lib;%LIB%

:gnu-util path
set PATH=%GNUDIR%\bin;%PATH%
set PATH=%GNUDIR%\usr\bin;%PATH%

:ccc path
set PATH=%CCCDIR%\usr\bin\%CCCUNAME%;%PATH%
set PATH=%CCCHOME%\bin;%PATH%

:ccc terminal
set CCCTERM_SIZE=90x32
set CCCTERM_FONTSIZE=18
set CCCTERM_CONNECT=%CCCDIR%\usr\bin\%CCCUNAME%\terminal.exe
set JTERMINAL=%CCCDIR%\usr\bin\%CCCUNAME%\jterminal.jar

:z-editor
set ZCOLOR_0=b/w
set ZCOLOR_2=w/b
set ZHOME=%CCCHOME%\z

:start terminal
:cd %CCCHOME%
cd %CCCDIR%
title %CCCDIR%-%CCCBIN%
:set | grep CCC
start /b

and install the following

@echo off
set CCCHOME=c:\users\%USERNAME%\ccchome
%CCCHOME%\bin\cccenv  3

on your desktop into the ccc3.bat script. Now, if you start this script, then you get a console window with the CCC3 environment in it.

Start a CCC console (with the ccc3.bat script above), and in that console execute the following command from the CCCHOME directory.

git clone https://github.com/mrev11/ccc3.git

This command extracts the CCC source into the CCCHOME/ccc3 directory. This place will be referred as CCCDIR.

Start a CCC console (with ccc3.bat from the desktop), go into the CCCDIR(=CCCHOME\ccc3) directory, and execute the i.bat script. This will compile the whole CCC. The process must be successful without any error or warning. Otherwise you have to verify the

• fulfilment of dependencies,

• the CCC environment.

From time to time, using the newer and newer C compilers, there may be new warnings, which will be fixed during the regular maintenance of CCC.