CreateProcess: No such file or directory

Question

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.

Answer 1

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