title: Using MinGW-w64 with Visual Studio Code without adding it to the PATH
body: <p>I have always used Code::Blocks as my IDE for MinGW-w64 on Windows.
  However, I notice a lot of people on stackoverflow are using Visual Studio Code these days, so maybe it's time I gave that a try.</p>
  <p>According to <a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/config-mingw" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/config-mingw</a> I should add MinGW-w64 to the PATH, but I really don't want to do this. I have several versions of my personal build of MinGW-w64 (<a href="http://winlibs.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://winlibs.com/</a>) on my system, and adding these to the PATH would risk mixing them up.</p>
  <p>So is there a way to use MinGW-w64 with Visual Studio Code without adding it to the PATH?</p>