Re: [Mingw-users] Necessary environment path settings?

[Greg Chicares <gchicares@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-03-23 12:45Z, Roland Schwarz wrote:
> With the mingw 3.4.5 release it was possible to invoke
> the compiler just by calling with an absolute path without
> the need to set up the path variable before.
> 
> This is not true anymore for 4.2.1. I get a CreateProcess:
> No such file or directory error message instead.

It's best to paste the exact error message here.

What version of ms windows are you using? Is it "vista"?

> Has this been changed intentionally?
> 
> ( I am talking about using mingw from the CMD.EXE without
> MSYS. )

Not reproduced here with ms windows "xp":

C:\tmp>PATH ''

C:\tmp>PATH
PATH=''

C:\tmp>\cygwin\MinGW-20070825-sjlj\bin\gcc -dumpversion
4.2.1-sjlj

C:\tmp>\cygwin\MinGW-20070825-sjlj\bin\gcc hello.c

C:\tmp>a.exe
hello, world!

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