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Title: my broken path
Post by: marcianfield on February 10, 2016, 03:38:44 pm

hi,

just downloaded codeblocks ide for c. I'm running windows 8.1. It loads up but tells me it can't fnd the compiler gnu. I tried to run something anyway but the build log said my path needed to be fixed. I checked my compilers installation directory and it looks like this: C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\minGW which is indeed where codeblocks is on my computer. Don't know if it means anything but when I looked at the codeblocks directory I could only find a mingwn10.dll.

would be grateful for any help

thanks

marc

Title: Re: my broken path
Post by: raynebc on February 10, 2016, 07:23:00 pm

Quote from: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/getting_started

MinGW may have problems with paths containing spaces, and if not, usually other programs used with MinGW will experience problems with such paths. Thus, we strongly recommend that you do not install MinGW in any location with spaces in the path name reference. You should avoid installing into any directory or subdirectory having names like "Program Files" or "My Documents", etc.

Title: Re: my broken path
Post by: marcianfield on February 10, 2016, 08:54:21 pm

Thanks.

I reinstalled the ide and put codeblocks just in C.
I changed the path in settings to C:/CodeBlocks/minGW,
however the error remains

any other ideas?

Title: Re: my broken path
Post by: Jenna on February 10, 2016, 10:49:32 pm

Use the installer with included compiler or install a compiler yourself.

Title: Re: my broken path
Post by: jphturtle on February 13, 2016, 05:59:58 pm

 :-[ I too downloaded the code blocks with the compiler included, and still have the same problem. :P