[Mingw-users] Simple programs failing to compile

[Des <Fre...@de...>]

I've recently switched to MingW32 from DJGPP, and am having a strange
problem. The following hello program works fine:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("hello!");
    return 0;
}

I build this by using the following command line:

gcc hello.c -o hello.exe


However, any attempt to initialise variables after the call to printf()
results in a parse error! For example:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("hello!");
    int c;
    return 0;
}

generates the error:

clever.c: In function `main':
clever.c:5: parse error before `int'

Anyone know any reason why this could be? Initialising variables prior to
the printf() call works fine, but for some reason not subsequent to it. Any
help would be appreciated.