I am working on a new laptop. The first thing I need to have installed is MinGW, Perl and vim. Note, the Laptop in question is a Windows Laptop. So, this page is probably less than useless for Unix/Linux users, but they will know that already. MinGW (as of version 3.1.0) consists of the following 7 packages GCC The compiler binutils A collection of binary utils of which the most important ones are