O.k. thanks for all the hints.
First, the end of line character did not solve the problem...so I decided to start all over again.
I did follow the wiki and downloaded all the necessary MinGW and GCC files as listed from the gcc 3.4.4 manual install section. I also downloaded msys (1.0.10).
Now, forget about C::B for the moment...I can't even compile a 1-line C program.
Initially, in the msys bash terminal, I got the error : "gcc installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1': invalid argument.
Then, I don't remember exactly what I did first and when the error message changed but I setup the environment variable exec prefix as follows:
GCC_EXEC_PREFIX=c:\programstoo\mingw\libexec
and also added c:\programstoo\mingw\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.4 to PATH ... since cc1 is somewhere down there.
After doing that, the error message in msys became
$gcc try.c
ld: crtbegin.o: No such file: No such file or directory
The error in a DOS window still is the "cannot exec cc1" error, though.
A google search on crtbegin and cc1 reveals problems with these files 3 or 4 years ago, I thought things would have been solve by now...or am I missing something?
The other two environment variables are
C_INCLUDE_PATH=c:\programstoo\mingw\include
CPP_INCLUDE_PATH=c:\programstoo\mingw\include\c++;c:\programstoo\mingw\include
While I realize that I should probably take this matter to a mingw forum, any help from any of you (as mingw users) would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Germán