I’m trying to learn coding and while I can compile programs for Linux without issues, I’m struggling to make MinGW work with Eclipse, it doesn’t detect it at all despite being installed.Īt some point today I somehow managed to get it work, since I was trying stuff I deleted it just to see if Eclipse was actually using the c-basic-mingw bundle, and after that it stopped generating. Still lingers around, reboot your system (don't just logout andĪfter you did the copying described above, you can add MinGW-w64 bin directory to PATH and Eclipse will recognize the MinGW-w64 installation as MinGW toolchain.Hi! I’m trying to get to work the official CL bundle c-basic-mingw on Eclipse IDE: (which happens with MinGW-W64), copy a -gcc.exe file (e.g. Make sure that a fileĬalled 'mingw32-gcc.exe' exists in MINGW_HOMEin.Īs it mentioned further in Eclipse CDT FAQ, the easy fix would be to copy i686-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe to mingw32-gcc.exe: MINGW_HOME, you may still get a “Toolchain 'MinGW GCC' is notĭetected” message (CDT 8.4 on Luna 4.4.0). The main issue is that as described in Eclipse CDT FAQ to detect MinGW toolchain CDT tries to find mingw32-gcc.exe in PATH, while MinGW-w64 have only gcc and i686-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe in its bin directory, so just adding MinGW-w64 bin directory to PATH won't work:ĭespite having g++.exe or gcc.exe on your PATH and having defined

Well, a bit late to the party, but it looks like there is nothing special about MSYS2: the usual procedure of setting up Eclipse to work with MinGW-w64 installation worked for me just fine.

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