how to uninstall MinGW and make cygwin 'make' as deafult make program with gcc 3.8.1

cygwin, mingw, uninstallation

Solution

Answer 1:

- if you have used an installer, uninstall it through program manager

- Remove your MinGW folder (eg. `C:/MinGW`)

- Make sure there's no MinGW path left in `PATH` environment variable

If you haven't used an installer, you can skip 1., but if you have, you should check 2. and 3. manually.

Answer 2:

Do you use an IDE? If yes you can specify your make / gcc there. You can set an absolute path to the correct program too.

Problem

- How to uninstall MinGW? I have installed it for some software but now I don't use that software at all and so I need to remove the `MinGW` in order to use Cygwin for android development. - How to set the Cygwin 'make' file as default with `GCC 3.8.1`? I am on windows 7 64-bit

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