Re: [Mingw-users] Installation problem on Win 7

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Otto Hunt
>> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:56:26 -0700
>>
>> So compilation should work (my previous error was typing g++). When I
>> navigate to c:\cfiles\ (where I have chosen to store my source code) then
>> enter "gcc helloworld.cpp -o helloworld.exe " I get a new error:
>>
>> gcc: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory
>>
>> But when I change the .cpp to .c, it will compile, with a warning:
>
> That means you didn't install the C++ compiler distribution.  When gcc
> sees a C++ file, such as helloworld.cpp, it wants to invoke
> cc1plus.exe, the C++ compiler.  And it evidently doesn't find it.

And to get rid of the warning you need to include stdio.h.

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