The procedure for installing MinGW (that came with GCC 4.6.2 at the time) was previously described. Later once Qt was being utilized, the procedure for installing the QtSDK with MinGW (that came with the older GCC 4.4) was given, and then it was detailed how to connect the MinGW with GCC 4.6.2 to QtCreator since 4.4 was too old.
The Qt Project team no longer provides the QtSDK (that included the Qt library development files, MinGW and QtCreator). Therefore, the Qt4 libraries and QtCreator now need to be installed separately. The latest Qt4 (4.8.6) for MinGW does not actually come with MinGW, which needs to be install separately beforehand. They suggest installing MinGW-w64 first (which includes GCC 4.8.2) and give a specific version to install.
MinGW-w64 can be downloaded from here. This is revision 3 and there is now a revision 4 (they don't detail very well what was changed in revision 4), but I installed the recommended revision 3. The download file is in 7-Zip format, which Windows 8.1 does not have native support for. To install 7-Zip, go to the 7-Zip website and click the Download .msi (for 64-bit Windows 8 or Download .exe if using 32-bit Windows 8). Once downloaded open the program. (Don't install the 7z922.exe program, the default program on their SourceForge page, as it doesn't connect into Windows Explorer.)
MinGW can now be installed by extracting the i686-4.8.2-release-posix-dwarf-rt_v3-rev3.7z download file. Right-click on this file, select 7-Zip, and Extract files... Set the Extract to directory to C:\ and click OK. This will install MinGW at C:\mingw32, which is the location Qt expects to find it. Next post will describe installing Qt.
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