[Dev-C++] "Not found" problem

[P.D. v. Z. <pd...@xs...>]

Hi,

I've been trying to get Dev-C++ to work on my PC for a couple of months
now... trying each new version as it came out, but to no avail. I
installed it at work as well, and it worked perfectly. I have no idea
what could be the problem. Whenever I try to compile anything (any type
of project, doesn't matter), I get an error "not found", and the compile
log says, for example, the following:

------------------------------------------------------------
Executing  make...
C:\\Development\\Dev-CPP\\bin\\make.exe -f
"C:\Development\Projects\C++\Console\Dirksen_ANSI_C\ANSI_C_07_MPC08\Make
file.win" all
C:\\Development\\Dev-CPP\\bin\\gcc.exe -c main.c -o main.o
-I"C:/Development/Dev-CPP/include"   -fexceptions -s -O3
-fexpensive-optimizations C:\Development\Dev-CPP\bin\gcc.exe: not found
C:\\Development\\Dev-CPP\\bin\\make.exe: *** [main.o] Error 127
Execution terminated
------------------------------------------------------------

This is after I tried changing some things however. In newer versions I
saw you could specify the paths to the executables manually, so I filled
in the explicit paths, hoping this would finally solve my problem. The
Dev-C++ bin directory is in my PATH env variable, but that doesn't seem
to help either. I once tried copying the entire bin dir to my Windows
directory.. no luck either. I tried using entirely 8.3 (DOS) paths,
still no luck. Then I tried filling in the executable locations, first
using the normal path (one backslash as separator), wouldn't work. Then
an escaped path (double backslashes), still not working... now I'm
getting pretty fed up with my computer, for continually refusing to work
correctly, so I decided to finally ask the list.

My system is (if this is even remotely relevant) an AMD 1GHz, 512 MB
RAM. Running Windows XP Pro with SP1 (this is likely to be important I'd
think). I have Visual C++ 6.0 and Visual Studio .NET installed as well,
and the entire MSDN library from Visual Studio 6... I don't know if any
of this could conflict. I haven't tried uninstalling any of those to see
if Dev-C++ would work then, cause Visual C++ is my primary IDE.... I'm
using Dev-C++ as an 'extra' IDE, mostly for when I want to work on
cross-platform projects.

I hope anyone can help me with this... maybe someone else has had this
problem as well (though I haven't seen it come by the list yet). I would
really like to use Dev-C++, but right now I just can't.

Thanks in advance,


Paul