Thread: gcc compiler not working in windows vista

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    Question gcc compiler not working in windows vista

    Im using windows and seem to have installed the C compiler using cygwin. When i open cmd and type in gcc i get the following error:
    C:\Users\Taurus>gcc
    'gcc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
    operable program or batch file.

    But when i type g++-3 it works in a way as I get a 'good' error:
    C:\Users\Taurus>g++-3
    g++-3: no input files

    In Environment Variables for the path I put this:
    %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%Sy... Files\Common Files\Adobe\AGL;C:\Program Files\Encsoft\bin;C:\j2sdk1.4.2_18\bin;C...

    How do i get the gcc to work?

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    Ewww Cygwin...

    Get MinGW. Its a free port of GCC to Windows and it creates native Windows executables with no 3rd party dependencies.

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...?group_id=2435

    You can read up about it and download the latest versions of each package separately, or you can just use the automated installer. Make sure you add the MinGW bin directory to your path and you should be good to go.

    Some of the utilities, like GNU make, have long executable names. It can get tedious to type out "mingw32-make". So I create a copy of the executable and rename the copy to something more sane - like "make.exe". Make sure you keep the original executable though, you never know when some other utility may expect it to be there.

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