Thread: new to gcc, need guidance

Hello, I have downloaded mingw, I'm playing with it to try and learn it from command line, but it is nothing like Visual studio 10 PE- which is why I want to learn it. anyway, I'm trying to compile a simple hello world program on it and it is giving me these errors, can you help me with their meanings:


from file z: mingw\bin\..lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/include/c++/bits/postypes.h:42;0,
from file z: mingw\bin\..lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/include/c++/ios:39, 40,
from file z: mingw\bin\..lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/include/c++/cwchar:47:19; fatal error: wchar.h: No such file or directory
complilation terminated

here is the code

Code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main ()
{
cout<< "hello world, it finally works!"<<endl;

return 0;

}//main

You should go to this path "mingw\bin\..lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/include/c++/" and search for "wchar.h" file . If not exist there must download and coping it there .

I will do that, thanks for the help. because I haven't used it before, I wasn't sure if I was screwing something up or something wasn't there. lol