title: Simple C++ compiler for windows
body: <p>Thought I'd write something in C++ instead of some interpreted languages (cause I need the performance for something simple) and went around trying different tools.</p>
  
  <p>First I found cygwin cause it had g++, but it requires cygwin.dll to run the exe's.  </p>
  
  <p>Then I tried mingw, but it seems like I need to include some dll's with the distribution like libgcc and libgstd or something, which bloats the executable to about a MB (I don't really need that many bytes to do simple file I/O)</p>
  
  <p>Then I looked at Visual C++ 2010 since I already had it installed, but it looks like I need to install 2008 just to use .net framework 3.5. Well, I wouldn't mind using 4.0, but I imagine there are many people that don't have 4.0 on their windows machines and it would be quite an inconvenience to read a file.</p>
  
  <p>What can I use that will allow me to pass around small exe's (eg: a few KB's worth) that perform simple one-off things that will run on most windows machines? (since it is only relevant to windows users)</p>
  
  <p>Or should I just use C and go with gcc for mingw?</p>