CreateProcess No such file or directory

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I am getting this error whenever I try to run GCC outside of its installation directory  E  MinGW bin     So  let s say I am in E  code and have a file called one c  Running  gcc one c -o one exe will give me this error   gcc  CreateProcess  No such file or directory   The only workaround is to navigate to its installation directory  run gcc from there  and specify all the other paths  My environmental variable Path contains E  MinGW bin   Any suggestions to fixing this problem  I am running Windows XP SP3

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I was getting this error message  because I was using MinGW-w64  and the commands in  lt install path gt  bin all had a weird prefix  I attempted to call executables in the  target alias  directories instead of in  lt install path gt  bin directories  which resulted in even more problems  That s a no-no according to the FAQ  The solution for me  then  was to create symbolic links to all the prefixed commands  I opened an elevated command prompt and used something like mklink gcc exe                                x86 64-w64-mingw32-gcc exe for every executable  and now my build works

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It looks like there are a couple of release distro for MinGW  Which one did you try  For the record  I ran into the exact same problem as the OP and the distro I got was from TDM-GCC 4 5 1   I found the MinGW distro here seems to work far better and sets things up correctly  So for anyone running into this retarded  createprocess-no-such-file-or-directory  error and can t get things to work  uninstall your existing MinGW and try the one I linked instead

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I experienced a similar problem  Initially  adding the GCC bin folder to my system path did not resolve the problem  I found two solutions   The first was to run a batch file I found in the root of the MinGW install  mingwbuilds bat  It  apparently  launches a command prompt configured correctly to run GCC  The second was to remove double-quotation marks from the GCC install bin folder that I had added to my user path variable  I tried this after noticing the batch file not using double-quotes around the install bin path   Extra Details  I found the batch file accidentally while browsing the install folder tree trying to locate the various executables that weren t launching  according to the -v output   I found some information on the MinGW wiki  http   www mingw org wiki Getting Started  in the Cautions and Environment Settings sections  that indicates why the MinGW installer does not set up the system or user path to include the install folder  These seem to confirm the batch file is intended to launch a command prompt suitable for running GCC from a Windows prompt

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I just had this problem   In my case  the problem was due to problems when downloading the packages for GCC  The mingw-get program thought it finished the download  but it didn t   I wanted to upgrade GCC  so I used mingw-get to get the newer version  For some reason  mingw-get thought the download for a particular file was finished  but it wasn t  When it went to extract the file  I guess it issued an error  which I didn t even bother to look -- I just ran  mingw-get update  amp  amp  mingw-get install mingw32-gcc  and left it there    To solve  I removed gcc by doing  mingw-get remove mingw32-gcc  and also removed the package file  the one mingw-get didn t fully download   which was in the mingw cache folder   C  MinGW var cache mingw-get packages  in my system   then ran the install command again  It download and installed the missing parts of GCC  it had not fully downloaded the package gcc-core    That solved my problem   Interestingly enough  mingw-get was smart enough to continue the download of gcc-core even after me having deleted the package file in the cache folder  and also removed the package mingw32-gcc   I think the more fundamental problem was that since gcc-core files were not installed  cc1 wasn t there  And gcc uses cc1  I guess that  when gcc tried to start cc1  it used CreateProcess somewhere passing the path of cc1  which was not the path of an existing file  Thus the error message

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So this is a stupid error message because it doesn t tell you what file it can t find   Run the command again with the verbose flag gcc -v to see what gcc is up to   In my case  it happened it was trying to call cc1plus  I checked  I don t have that  Installed mingw s C   compiler and then I did

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I had exactly the same problem    After a recheck of my PATH  I realized I installed both Mingw  64 bit  and Cygwin  32 bit    The problem is that both Mingw and Cygwin have g      By deactivating the path of Cygwin  the error disappeared

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I had a very long path  and there s a file in there somewhere  not gcc exe  but another file  that gcc exe is accessing from the path    So when I cleared the path  it worked  C  MinGW gt cd bin   C  MinGW bin gt where gcc exe C  MinGW bin gcc exe C  Perl64 site bin gcc exe      So running gcc from there will definitely run the ming gcc exe  C  MinGW bin gt type file6 c  include lt stdio h gt  void main     int num1 num2  scanf   2d  4d   amp num1  amp num2   printf  a  d b  d  num1 num2   scanf   d   amp num1     flushall    printf  c  d  num1       Compiling it I got this error  C  MinGW bin gt gcc file6 c gcc  error  CreateProcess  No such file or directory   My PATH was huge  C  MinGW bin gt path PATH C  Windows system32 C  Windows C  Windows system32 wbem C  P         C  MinGW bin path   grep -io  ming   It didn t have ming there    C  MinGW bin echo MING   grep -io  ming  MING   and yeah that grep works  the path didn t have ming there   Clearing my path completely  led it to work   C  MinGW bin gt set PATH   C  MinGW bin gt gcc file6 c  C  MinGW bin gt    So  it s not clear yet precisely what it was in the PATH that led to the clash  What directory  what file   Update-  The above seems to be correct to me but to add  it s also not a simple case of something earlier in the path clashing   because normally the current directory takes precedence  And it does here in so far as gcc --version shows it s running the ming one and not one of the ones in a conflicting directory  So there s something funny going on that  if the conflicting directory is in the path     one has to either do   gcc or add   to the start of the path or add c  MinGW bin  before any conflicting directories in the path  this is the case even when you re in C  MinGW bin  and that s strange  And when it gives an error  it is still running Ming s gcc but  For some reason  looking at the conflicting directory too  as I see from process monitor    There may be more of an answer here http   wiki codeblocks org index php title Installing MinGW with Vista   in the link mentioned in the very upvoted answer here      That s Ming32 bit    Looking at Ming 64bit  probably has te same issue  but I see  interestingly  it comes with a bat file that  sensibly  actually puts the bin directory at the tart of the path   And it looks like that is a standard way of running Ming gcc properly    The code  blocks IDE  sensibly  also puts the bin directory at the start of the path   If you run a C program that shows environment variables then you see that

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I had the same problem and I tried everything with no result   What fixed the problem for me was changing the order of the library paths in the PATH variable  I had cygwin as well as some other compilers so there was probably some sort of collision between them  What I did was putting the C  MinGW bin  path first before all other paths and it fixed the problem for me

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Although post is old I had the same problem with mingw32 vers 4 8 1 on 2015 02 13  Compiling using Eclipse CDT failed with this message  Trying from command line with -v option also failed  I was also missing the cc1plus executable   The cause  I downloaded the command line and graphical installer from the mingw32 site  I used this to do my initial install of mingw32  Using the GUI I selected the base tools  selecting both the c and c   compilers   This installer did an incomplete install of the 32 bit c   compiler  I had the g   and cpp files but not the cc1plus executable  Trying to do an  update  failed because the installer assumed I had everything installed   To fix I found these sites   http   mingw-w64 sourceforge net  http   sourceforge net projects mingw-w64  I downloaded and ran this  online install   Sure enough this one contained the missing files  I modified my PATH variable and pointed to the  bin  folder containing the g   executable  Rebooted  Installed 64 bit Eclipse  Opened Eclipse and the  Hello World  c   program compiled  executed  and debugged properly   Note  the 64bit installer seems to default to UNIX settings  Why can t an installer determine the OS    Make sure to change them   I spent an entire evening dealing with this  Hope this helps someone

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I had this same problem and none of the suggested fixes worked for me   So even though this is an old thread  I figure I might as well post my solution in case someone else finds this thread through Google like I did    For me  I had to uninstall MinGW delete the MinGW folder  and re-install   After re-installing it works like a charm

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try to put the path in the system variables instead of putting in user variables in environment variables

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This problem might arise if you have different versions of programs   For instance  you have 1-year old gcc and you want to compile a C   source code  If you use mingw-get to install g    gcc and g   will suddenly have different versions and you ware likely to find yourself in this situation   Running mingw-get update and mingw-get upgrade has solved this issue for me

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This problem is because you use uppercase suffix stuff C rather than lowercase stuff c when you compile it with Mingw GCC  For example  when you do like this    gcc -o stuff stuff C   then you will get the message  gcc  CreateProcess  No such file or directory  But if you do this    gcc -o stuff stuff c   then it works  I just don t know why

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The solution for me is simply    When you save the program  let s say its named hi cpp put it into folder e g  xxl then save your program  Cut this folder and put it into the bin folder of the mingw  When you call the program     ------ g   xxl hi cpp --------

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Referring to original problem   Today s version of mingw  see post date   All I had to do was to set the path in same shell I ran gcc  Took me an hour to remember how to set DOS variables     A  gt  set PATH C  MinGW bin   C  Program Files ImageMagick-6 8 0-Q16   C  WINDOWS system32  C  WINDOWS  C  WINDOWS System32 Wbem   C  WINDOWS system32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0   C  Program Files QuickTime QTSystem  A  gt  gcc hi c

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According to Code  Blocks wiki  you need to add C  MinGW libexec gcc mingw32 MinGW-Version to your PATH  There is no need to restart  but you need to open another terminal in order to get the newest PATH settings   For MinGW-w64  that s  lt mingw install directory gt  libexec gcc x86 64-w64-mingw32 4 7 0

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I had the same problem but none of currently listed solutions helped at first try   -v option didn t give any additional clues   Had to resort to ProcMon to be able to find the root of the problem   Dumping g   process file activity revealed numerous attempts to find cc1plus executable at different paths  There were paths to old GCC version among them   But that old version resided in separate folder and was not at all referenced from the new version I tried to run   At last the obsolete path was found in system  PATH  environment variable  After removing it  the new version started to work without errors

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Was getting the same error message when trying to run from Cygwin with links to the mingw install   Using the same install of mingw32-make-3 80 0-3 exe from http   www mingw org wiki FAQ and the mingw shell option from Start -  Programs -  on a WinXP SP3 and gcc is working fine

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I had the same problem    I already had a g   compiler installed thru MinGW  the package mingw32-gcc-g    but I needed a C compiler so I ran mingw-get-setup exe where I was able to have it install the mingw32-base package  the one with the C compiler    Alas  I had this error when I use gcc to compile   gcc  error  createprocess  no such file or directory  What I did was  still using the MinGW Installation Manager  I removed the C and C   compiler packages  namely mingw32-base  and mingw32-gcc-g   and ALSO deleted the C  MinGW directory itself  Then I reran mingw-get-setup exe  installed mingw32-base  and voila  it worked

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Its specifically told that you need to reboot after you set the environmental variables in windows for migwin

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I had a similar problem  caused by not installing the C   compiler  In my case I was compiling  cpp files for a Python extension  but the compiler is first invoked as c  mingw bin gcc exe   Internally  gcc exe would notice it was asked to compile a  cpp file  It would try to call g   exe and fail with the same error message      gcc exe  CreateProcess  no such file or directory

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Add E  MinGW bin to the PATH variable

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I had the same problem  I m running cygwin   Starting a shell through cygwin bat didn t help  but starting a shell through MingWShell did  Not quite sure why  but I think it had something to do with the extra layer that cygwin puts between the executing script and the underlying filesystem   I was running pip install from within a virtual env s cygwin to install django sentry

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In the  give a man a fish  feed him for a day  teach a man to fish  get rid of him for the whole weekend  vein  g   --help shows compiler options   The g   -v option helps     -v                       Display the programs invoked by the compiler  Look through the output for bogus paths   In my case the original command   g   -v  d  UW Work EasyUnit examples 1-BasicUnitTesting main cpp   generated output including this little gem   -iprefix c  olimexods yagarto arm-none-eabi bin    lib gcc arm-none-eabi 4 5 1   which would explain the  no such file or directory  message     The     lib gcc arm-none-eabi 4 5 1   segment is coming from built-in specs   g   -dumpspecs

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For me this error started occurring when the length of the command line exceeded cygwin s limit  Which was 32000 bytes  You can check the limit using this command    getconf ARG MAX 32000  The solution in the project I am working has not been finalized yet  but possible solutions include   using binaries built from link libraries instead built from all the project files  shortening the names of directories that contain many source code files  as the names of the directories are repeated multiple times  reviewing the list of files used by the linker   Likely there are many more possible solutions too  the simplest perhaps is finding a way to increase the length limit

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