新的MinGW gcc什么都不做

Question

I'm trying to compile a simple helloworld program with MinGW on Windows and nothing happens. No output, no executable, nothing. I've just installed the latest MinGW with their mingw-get-inst-20120421.exe installer. When I use an older version of MinGW that came with Code::Blocks , I am able to compile the program. I'm out of ideas and my googling has been in vain. C:\\MinGW\\bin is on my path and I'm using MSYS.

Command line parameters in MSYS:

gcc helloworld.c -o helloworld

Answer 1

Execute the console from the Start menu, Start->MingW->MinGW Shell or from filesystem:

C:\\MinGW\\msys\\1.0\\msys.bat

Execute gcc in this shell.

Otherwise you will have to add the minGW/bin directory to your PATH environment variable.

Answer 2

Go to the directory where you have you gcc executable. In my case it's:

C:\MingW\bin

From there execute gcc:

gcc myFile.c

If it compiles, than something must screwed up your $PATH