Install gcc 4.9 on windows and configure it in Netbeans

Preamble

If anything I wrote is not correct, please be so kind and correct me. I am a php developer mainly - I am not into this compiling stuff. I know there are a lot of topics around the www but they seems to be either old/outdated, very complex or links to a bunch of files on sourceforge (I have no clue what files I should download and what to do with them after downloading them).

Searching a couple of days by now

I am researching for a couple of days by now and tried different compilers and settings but I don't get a standalone executable for a c++14 programme.

First compiler

The first compiler I used was cygwin. I was able to compile it with c++14 but on other computers cygwin had to be installed as well as a cygwin dll was missing. I googled and figured out that programmes compiled using Cygwin requires this dll but cannot be included to the programme itself - or did I missed something?

Current compiler

I then switched to MinGW which seems to be a better choice as it allows to compile standalone executables which is correct as I am able to do so. Well, the MinGW setup I downloaded from http://www.mingw.org/ installed among other the gcc version 4.8.1. I need 4.9.1 for c++14.

As the title says I want to configure it in Netbeans but if there is a proper tutorial for a command line compiling it's no problem either but I try to avoid using another IDE as we use it at work, too.

drangon.org

I also heard about http://ift.tt/1t0jyVr but there are tons of links linking to similiar stuff.

My goals

1. Get a better understanding about gcc and this compiling stuff in general.


2. Install gcc 4.9.1 (preferred into MinGW as it's currently installed)


3. Configure it in Netbeans 8.