Eclipse can't find MinGW. Why?

Question

I installed both correctly, but it doesn't matter if I set up the path to compiler correctly or not because it can't find gcc and g++. I checked it with explorer, they were at the correct location. I tried everything I could, even I ran Eclipse in backwards compatibility mode and as an administrator.

EDIT: I'll using Visual Studio 2012 for a while if Eclipse can't be at least as user friendly to having find a solution to the problem under one hour via web.

Answer 1

I couldn't make the Eclipse (LUNA) to find MinGW on my computer (there were no MinGW available in Preferences>C/C++/New C/C++ Project Wizard) even after I have specified PATH as "C:\MinGW\bin" in Preferences>C/C++/Build>Environment, so what I did afterwards was:

1. Create a simple "Hello world" C project without specifying any toolchains
2. (at this step I tried to Build All, and it failed)
3. Go to Project>Properties, suprisingly, here I could see MinGW GCC as an available choice for Current toolchain. Select it.
4. Now I could build and run the project

Hopefully, it helps!

Answer 2

I had to reload my workspace in order to get Eclipse to recognize that.

Also, I had updated the Path variable.

Please follow the same in your case.

Answer 3

Download this , chose the desired compilers (gcc and g++) . Make sure you have the value C:\mingw64 in PATH variable under environment variables .