Newb help

Hi

I recently found this site while searching for a good programming site. I read the getting started page and downloading the Dev-C++ compiler. I put the code into it to test it out and it came up with an error. I thought it might just be the compiler so I downloaded Code::Blocks this morning. I just tried running the code that was in the main.cpp to test it again and it came up with this error:

mingw32-g++.exe: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory

Have I done something wrong such as check a box i shouldnt have done or something? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks ^_^

Try unintalling it and re-installing it.

I did that with the Dev but that didnt help. I'll try it though.

EDIT: No that didn't help...

When you downloaded dev-c++, did you get the full package (the large one), or the small one (just the IDE).

...I dont really remember because it was before I went on holiday a few weeks ago. But I wish to continue with the Code::Blocks one.

I'm using Vista btw. Would that be causing this?

code::blocks is just the IDE which wraps around the compiler.

You could get the same compiler from http://www.mingw.org/ if you wanted to, but the advantage of getting the compiler with dev-c++ is that it's all in one handy executable file, so there is a lot less for you to do.

so I should try fixing Dev-C++? I still dont know how to do that though O_o

Have you tried running the updater that's part of Dev-C++ ? It could be you need to update some of the components.. I think the updater is under the Tools menu.. maybe.

All I could find was "check for update" under the hep menu. I clicked that and it said that there was a new version available. I'm gonna download this now to see if that helps.

Okay, that seems to have helped. I just compiled and ran the code that was already in the thing when I started a new project and it worked. Thanks for the help guys ^_^