Hopeless lost in Vista

[Newbie0815]

I guess I am a hopeless case, but after stahta01 helped me so nicely on how to install a nightly in XP, I have a hope that someone here might help me again to do the same in Vista

Situation:
I´ve found the explanation at Wiki, how to solve the problems with mingw in vista, including a howto page with detailed explanation how to install it http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Installing_MinGW_with_Vista, but it seems I´m always missing something, or in other words, I don´t get it to work
I´ve tried half a dozen times re-formatting the harddisk and starting over from a fresh system, followed all instructions from the Wiki page word by word, tried the additional suggestions at the bottom without success

The problem seems to be the different version numbers of all the pieces one needs, from mingw over make up to gdb, at least thats my guess
While some downloads are executables, which do not always work in Vista, others are tar.gz files where some of those archives are empty, or the archive is corrupt, or in other words, I wasn´t able to find working downloads for the versions used in the Wiki description

I would LOVE if someone could once again make me a list similar to the one stahta01 gave me here: http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,5231.msg40776.html#msg40776
with links to working downloads of new versions and installation instructions, of how to install and configure everything in Vista

You may assume a fresh installed Vista on drive C: and I´d like to have C::B plus all other neccessary things on drive D, where I also have a folder "D:\programming" containing the source codes of my project(s)

[bitcero]

Hello, well  dont know if this work for vista but works very well on xp and has several tools all in one http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ogre/MinGW_Toolbox_Setup_wr1.exe?download, and plus try in another directory  vista has some restrictions in program files  Dir

sorry for my eng. Im from colombia .. Exitos !!
 

[darthdespotism]

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MinGW-5.1.3.exe Does not work for you? Strange I did this on Vista more than once. Maybe try running it "as administrator"

[Newbie0815]

Yes, the mingw5.1.3.exe does work, but it installs the version 3.4.5 while the explanation at Wiki is made for version 4.2.0

If I use the 3.4.5 and do all the settings as explained at Wiki I get the error:
cc1plus.exe no such file or directory
even though I have added the correct path in the compiler settings as explained at Wiki and I have checked the file is in fact present in that folder

Thats why I thought I better use version 4.2.0 as the author of the Wiki article uses that as well, but the only download I found for version 4.2.0 is a corrupt or incomplete tar.gz file (or maybe I just don´t know how to install it)

However, all I would like to have is a working C::B under Vista, whether thats from the Wiki explanation or elsewhere, but somehow I´m just not smart enough to figure it out on my own, so I guess I need an explanation for dummies

[mariocup]

Hi,

I had also problems with mingw under vista. The problem is described in http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,6459.0.html.

Also the current version of mingw/gcc does not contain a patch for vista. The only possibility I know and that works for me is adding the patch from (see post) and recompile mingw yourself.

[Newbie0815]

I tried that, the -v and the patch, I had found these infos somewhere else as well, yet I´m still getting errors
I guess I´m just too early , I better wait until there is a really working version out

==> back to XP

btw ..... has anyone tried to install VirtualPC on Vista, with XP running on the virtual machine?

[TDragon]

Just in case you're interested, the version of GCC used in the Wiki is the one I provide, available here (and linked in my signature). Note that the instructions in the wiki were not written by me, because I don't currently have a copy of Vista.

[darthdespotism]

In fact they were writen by me.
(well, mostly)

I think the version of MinGW should not matter as I'm quite sure the friend of mine testing it on Win Vista Home Premium (as some reports reportet a fix for Busines, the Version I own I wanted it testet on some Home-Version too) has a MinGW as is downloaded from MinGW.org / sf.net but give it a try if you want