Issue compiling C++: gcc: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory

Question

As much searching as I've done, I've found so many answered questions here, yet absolutely none of them help my problem. I've been using gcc to compile my C code, and it's been working fine. I decided to start using C++. I tried compiling it and didn't work:

PS D:\huntr> gcc ./test.cpp -o ./test.exe
gcc.exe: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory

I have tried adding things to path, removing things from path, everything. No matter what I do, it keeps giving me this error. This is the output with -v enabled:

PS D:\huntr> gcc ./test.cpp -o ./test.exe -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=C:\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/6.3.0/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: mingw32
Configured with: ../src/gcc-6.3.0/configure --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=mingw32 --target=mingw32 --with-gmp=/mingw --with-mpfr --with-mpc=/mingw --with-isl=/mingw --prefix=/mingw --disable-win32-registry --with-arch=i586 --with-tune=generic --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,fortran,ada --with-pkgversion='MinGW.org GCC-6.3.0-1' --enable-static --enable-shared --enable-threads --with-dwarf2 --disable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-libiconv-prefix=/mingw --with-libintl-prefix=/mingw --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libgomp --disable-libvtv --enable-nls
Thread model: win32
gcc version 6.3.0 (MinGW.org GCC-6.3.0-1)
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-o' './test.exe' '-v' '-mtune=generic' '-march=i586'
 cc1plus -quiet -v -iprefix c:\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/6.3.0/ ./test.cpp -quiet -dumpbase test.cpp -mtune=generic -march=i586 -auxbase test -version -o C:\Users\FOXROC~1\AppData\Local\Temp\cc44oQcd.s
gcc.exe: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory

What should I do??

Answer 1

That happened to me a few days ago... I just installed again the compiler and then it worked

Answer 2

You did not install the required component mingw32-gcc-g++. You want to run the MinGW Installation Manager and select the required option on the Basic Setup pan.