HelloWorld program failes to link

[Ancient Dragon]

Compiling: main.cpp
Execution of 'g++.exe.lnk -Wall -fexceptions  -g     -c C:\dvlp\HelloWorld\main.cpp -o obj\Debug\main.o' in 'C:\dvlp\HelloWorld' failed.
Nothing to be done.

I just installed C::B with MiniGW compiler on 64-bit Vista Home Premium (I also have VC++ 2008 Express installed).  At first C::B produced error that it could not find the compiler.  I finally got that figured out, but now it produces the agove error.  I looked in the MiniGW bin folder and there is no program named "g++.exe.lnk".  Nor did it produce a *.o file from the *.cpp file.

Anyone know what is wrong?

[MortenMacFly]

I looked in the MiniGW bin folder and there is no program named "g++.exe.lnk".

Install the GCC / G++ compiler. Just MinGW is not enough. Follow the instructions on the MinGW webpage.

[stahta01]

I just installed C::B with MiniGW compiler on 64-bit Vista Home Premium

NOTE: The MinGW GCC packaged with Code::Blocks 8.02 is not good enough for normal Vista; not idea about Home Edition.

What version of MinGW did you install?

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Tim S.

[Jenna]

What makes me wonder is g++.exe.lnk.
It seems your g++ in the toolchain points to a link of to g++.exe not to th executable itself.

That does not work from inside C::B !!!

[Ancient Dragon]

Thanks for your comments.  I uninstalled C::B, installed MiniGW in c:\MiniGW (the default), then reinstalled C::B without MiniGW.  Tried to compiled Hello World c++ again, and it failed with the same problem as before.

Ok, I finally figured out the problem.  I had to go into the toolchain executables window and reset the compiler and linker to both use g++.exe instead of the default g++.exe.lnk. 

[Jenna]

Ok, I finally figured out the problem.  I had to go into the toolchain executables window and reset the compiler and linker to both use g++.exe instead of the default g++.exe.lnk. 

I never saw g++.exe.lnk as default value for the cpp-compiler the default value set by C::B is ming32-g++.exe .

So please don't blame C::B for a configuration error.

And I told you that most likely your toolchain is not set up correctly.
It would have been easier to check this before uninstalling and reinstalling C::B and MinGW.

[Ancient Dragon]

So please don't blame C::B for a configuration error.

Since I installed C::B with all defaults (location etc) there is no other reason for that to have happened other than faulty C::B installation program.  Oh well, its working now, so I'm not going to moan about that any more.  C::B developer team did an outstanding job writing that IDE

And I told you that most likely your toolchain is not set up correctly.
It would have been easier to check this before uninstalling and reinstalling C::B and MinGW.

Yes you are right about that one.  I had seen that several times but I thought (wrongly) that the linker would be a different program than the compiler.