After installing of MinGW. In order to use it in C-Free, we need to do some simple configurations for this compiler.

Start C-Free, go to "Build" menu, and choose "Build Options" item, the "Build Options" dialog appears.

Click the ">" button, in the popup menu select "New Configuration..." item. The "New Configuration" dialog appears.

We select Builder Type as "MinGW" and input Configuration Name "mingw5". Of course, you can select any name that you want. After "OK", the "Compiler Location" dialog appears.

Note: You will find the "MinGW" and "MinGW(Old)" in the list of builder types. For 3.0 or later version of MinGW, we must select "MinGW" type. The "MinGW(Old)" type is for 2.95 version of MinGW.

In this dialog, we select the compiler's folder. Here we can see the folder of MinGW 5.1 that we specified when we installed it. If your installation of compiler can not be detected by C-Free, please select the "Locate Manually" to specify the folder of the compiler by yourself.

After clicking "OK", all paths will be added automatically. Following are the screen shots of each path.

After clicking "OK", MinGW has been configured ok in C-Free.

Through the steps above, we created a Global Build Configuration named "mingw5". We can use this configuration to build file or project.